Samuel R. Delany Quotes

It looks like the writer is telling you a story. What the writer is actually doing, however, is using words to evoke a series of micromemories from your own experience that inmix, join, and connect in your mind in an order the writer controls, so that, in effect, you have a sustained memory of something that never happened to you.

Samuel R. Delany

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ExperienceWordsMemoryMindStory

I love playing idiots. I love very weird, confused women.

Jillian Bell

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Out of every 10 scripts I get sent, seven are fairly generic about an American guy who gets the girl and is involved in underground espionage activity.

Jim Sturgess

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Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

Johannes Tauler

GodYourselfAnythingRidDirected

I worry about every newspaper. I worry about the financial undertaking, and I worry that somehow the loss of the sale of the paper version will affect their ability to have journalists and editors and producers. We really need those.

Jeffrey Zeldman

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I do not want fame.

Tu Youyou

FameWant

There are many ways to see football and interpret it.

Ronaldo

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The American people are tired of being told. They're tired of being told that this is as good as it gets. They're tired of hearing politicians in both parties tell us that we'll get to that tomorrow while we pile a mountain range of debt on our children and our grandchildren.

Mike Pence

GoodChildrenMountainTiredPeople

Dust jackets are always something of an enigma to me.

Joyce Carol Oates

MeAlwaysDustEnigmaSomething

Almost every customer that I talk to is talking about how they're using APIs, and what a step function they are for their business.

Diane Greene

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I was born and raised a Christian, and I still adhere to those principles.

Dee Snider

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I'm a huge fan of anything Ed Brubaker does. A lot of his 'Daredevil' stuff. A lot of his creator-owned stuff, too. His 'Criminal stuff,' I'm really into.

CM Punk

AnythingCriminalFanStuffHisToo

I always like to talk about how important space is. Art is in the spaces. Anybody can sing a note; it takes an artist to sing the spaces. Anybody can paint a brushstroke; it takes an artist to know when not to put the brushstroke.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

ArtSpaceArtistKnowImportant

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