Dhalgren Delany Quotes & Sayings

To the Happy Few! — Stendhal

Handguns were in-room weapons. Under expert control in high-pressure situations the average range for a successful engagement was about eleven feet. — Lee Child

I like the idea of shows where I don't know where I'll be at the end of the season. — Amy Acker

I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central. — Lucy Powell

It's difficult when you want it all. — Vanessa Paradis

Just remember you have to bear my choice with the same grace and even tempered temerity I've shown with yours. (Shahara)
Good. I get to whine and bitch. Can't wait. (Syn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. — C.M. Stunich

He shrugged. Confusion was like struggling to find the proper way to sit inside his skin. — Samuel R. Delany

A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity. — Edward Tufte

'Dhalgren' is the kind of book in which you can look for pretty much anything you want. I tried to put as much into it as I could at the time. — Samuel R. Delany

He wanted to talk and had nothing to say. — Samuel R. Delany

Presumptuous bastard,' Tak said. 'Sunset? He might at least wait and see if there's a tomorrow morning. — Samuel R. Delany

But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty. — Thomas Jefferson

I didn't think past the first step of anything, that was the key. I drank a Coke and didn't worry about how to recycle the can or about the acid puddling in my belly, acid so powerful it could strip clean a penny. We went to a dumb movie and I didn't worry about the offensive sexism or the lack of minorities in meaningful roles. I didn't even worry about anything that came next. Nothing had consequence, I was living in the moment, and I could feel myself getting shallower and dumber. But also happy. — Gillian Flynn

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith. — Simone Weil

A number of things in 'Dhalgren' are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're mysteries when the book ends. — Samuel R. Delany

An obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more. — Mark Barrowcliffe