Samuel R. Delany Quotes

I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.

Samuel R. Delany

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 1, 1942

Topics

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Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant.

Jim Cole

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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

John Dalberg-Acton

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I remember being in high school and this guy saying to me, 'You'd actually be good-looking if you didn't joke around so much.' That affected me, and so I stopped joking around, and I stopped being a goof because I thought people would like me better.

Melanie Scrofano

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Kobe Bryant is a terrific offensive rebounder.

Jeff Van Gundy

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What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.

Stephen Malkmus

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I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else.

Stevie Smith

TodayTimeMeAliveWillRoom

I'd like to open doors for underserved communities and minorities in entrepreneurship.

Troy Carter

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You learn a lot about yourself doing physical work.

Rod Stewart

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I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them.

Ruth Rendell

LettersAnswerGoneUsedGetAlmost

Trust me - never in my life did I think I'd be carrying my groceries home and have a stop-and-chat with Karl Lagerfeld.

Joshua Jackson

LifeHomeTrustMeThinkMy Life

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Clint Eastwood

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