Frasi di Samuel R. Delany (131 frasi, pagina 4)

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“"The parts I like, well…" He shook his head, with pursed lips. "They just don't have anything to do with me: somebody else wrote them, it seems, about things I may have thought about once. The parts I don't like--well, I can remember writing those, oh yeah, word by word by word."”

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Samuel R. Delany libro Dhalgren

Part IV, "In Time of Plague" (p. 357)
Dhalgren (1975)

“You should always tell the truth, she thought, not because one lie leads to another, but rather because one lie could so easily lead you to that terrifying position from which, with just the help of a random dream, you can see, both back and ahead, the morass where truth and falsity are simply, for you, indistinguishable.”

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Samuel R. Delany libro Triton

Origine: Triton (1976), Chapter 7 “Tiresias Descending, or Trouble on Triton” (p. 329)

“What real power can buy, of course, is anonymity.”

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Samuel R. Delany libro Neveryóna

Origine: Neveryóna (1983), Chapter 12, “Of Models, Monsters, Night, and the Numinous” (p. 376)

““The beginning of the end, the beginning of the end,” muttered Lo Hawk. “We must preserve something.”
“The end of the beginning,” sighed La Dire. “Everything must change.””

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Samuel R. Delany libro The Einstein Intersection

Section 1
The Einstein Intersection (1967)

“Bear in mind that the novel—no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective—is always a historical projection of its own time.”

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Samuel R. Delany libro Nova

Origine: Nova (1968), Chapter 4 (p. 116)

“You seem to be using some sort of logical system where when you get near any explanation, you say: “By definition my problem is insoluble. Now that explanation over there would solve it. But since I’ve defined my problem as insoluble, then by definition that solution doesn’t apply.””

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Samuel R. Delany libro Triton

Origine: Triton (1976), Chapter 3 “Avoiding Kangaroos” (p. 123)

“To be a bandit is better than to be a slave!”

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Samuel R. Delany libro Neveryóna

Origine: Neveryóna (1983), Chapter 4, “Of Fate, Fortune, Mayhem, and Mystery” (p. 86)

“What I’ve observed—the pattern behind what I’ve observed—explains why what happens happens the way it does. It makes the whole process easier to see. Your idea is a possible explanation not of the observations but of a set of speculations, which, if you accepted them along with the explanation, would then only make you start seeing things and half-things where no things are.”

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Samuel R. Delany libro Tales of Nevèrÿon

Section 1 (p. 86)
Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979)

“Pryn felt the reckless freedom of assertion.”

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Samuel R. Delany libro Neveryóna

Origine: Neveryóna (1983), Chapter 11, “Of Family Gatherings, Grammatology, More Models, and More Mysteries” (p. 330)

“The rich are always enamored of the ancient.”

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Samuel R. Delany libro Nova

Origine: Nova (1968), Chapter 6 (p. 169)

“the Spike said. “I think we have just gotten down to a gritty—or at least a nitty.””

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Samuel R. Delany libro Triton

“Ah ha!”
Origine: Triton (1976), Chapter 3 “Avoiding Kangaroos” (p. 123)

“Play makes a human being! Work just means you don’t have to feel guilty about playing, which I don’t feel much anyway. Mainly work means I don’t have to suffer the taunts of my friends who wonder why I’m playing as hard as I do!”

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Samuel R. Delany libro Neveryóna

Origine: Neveryóna (1983), Chapter 9, “Of Night, Noon, Time, and Transition” (p. 238)

“It’s a good idea, when people are curious, to give them something to sustain that curiosity—and direct it.”

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Samuel R. Delany libro Neveryóna

Origine: Neveryóna (1983), Chapter 3, “Of Markets, Maps, Cellars, and Cisterns” (p. 65)

“Dull grown-ups and bright children form a particularly tolerant friendship.”

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Samuel R. Delany libro Nova

Origine: Nova (1968), Chapter 3 (p. 44)

“She recalled her absurd attempt to construct an example—an image that, because it was constructed of things it simply did not fit, reversed the idea into an idea silly by itself, ridiculous in application—a ridiculousness that could easily, she saw, have strayed into the pernicious, the odious, or the destructive, depending on how widely one had insisted on applying it.”

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Samuel R. Delany libro Tales of Nevèrÿon

Section 2 (p. 104)
Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979)

“There are three types of actions: purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters, to be immediate and apprehensible, must be presented by all three.”

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Samuel R. Delany libro Nova

Origine: Nova (1968), Chapter 6 (p. 166)

“If you're going to do something stupid—and we all do—it might as well be a brave and foolish thing.”

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Samuel R. Delany libro The Einstein Intersection

Section 3
The Einstein Intersection (1967)

“to wound the autumnal city.
So howled out for the world to give him a name.
The in-dark answered with wind.”

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Samuel R. Delany libro Dhalgren

Part I, "Prism, Mirror, Lens" (p. 1)
Dhalgren (1975)

“Earth, the world, the fifth planet from the sun—the species that stands on two legs and roams this thin wet crust: it’s changing, Lobey. It’s not the same. Some people walk under the sun and accept that change, others close their eyes, clap their hands to their ears, and deny the world with their tongues.”

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Samuel R. Delany libro The Einstein Intersection

Section 11 (in the far future of the novel, the sun has captured two more planets)
The Einstein Intersection (1967)

“And of course that is the problem with all truly powerful ideas. And what we have been talking of is certainly that. What it produces is illuminated by it. But applied where it does not pertain, it produces distortions as terrifying as the idea was powerful.”

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Samuel R. Delany libro Tales of Nevèrÿon

Section 1 (p. 87)
Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979)

“In a sense, modern philosophy is a series of introductions to introductions to introductions, the movement between them controlled by the pro-tective/pro-textive play of forces about desire.”

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