1. Zitate
  2. Autoren
  3. Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany Zitate
seite 4

Samuel Ray Delany ist ein amerikanischer Science-Fiction-Schriftsteller.

✵ 1. April 1942
Samuel R. Delany Foto
Samuel R. Delany: 131 Zitate0 Gefällt mir

Samuel R. Delany: Zitate auf Englisch

“"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."”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch 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.”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Triton

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

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

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Neveryóna

Quelle: 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.””

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch 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.”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Nova

Quelle: 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.””

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Triton

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

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

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Neveryóna

Quelle: 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.”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Tales of Nevèrÿon

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

“Pryn felt the reckless freedom of assertion.”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Neveryóna

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

“The rich are always enamored of the ancient.”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Nova

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

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

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Triton

“Ah ha!”
Quelle: 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!”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Neveryóna

Quelle: 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.”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Neveryóna

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

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

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Nova

Quelle: 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.”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch 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.”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Nova

Quelle: 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.”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch 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.”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch 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.”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch 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.”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch 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.”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Flight from Nevèrÿon

Appendix B, “Closures and Openings” Section 8 (p. 368; see note on Discussion page)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)

“But as soon as any of us dies, there is only the monster left. What I had been pursuing was not Belham but the monster called Belham. And what my whole journey had taught me was precisely what sort of monster it was: it was made, as all such monsters are, of contradiction, supposition, miscalculation, impossibility, and ignorance.”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Flight from Nevèrÿon

Section 9.82 (p. 302)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)

“I believe art is a wholly formal enterprise, encompassing almost all the tenets that the nineteenth century spoke of as l’art pour l’art, tenets which have made twentieth century’s experimentation possible.”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Flight from Nevèrÿon

What postmodern doesn’t?
Section 9.811 (p. 273)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)

“I confess, the Amnewor is new to me. Yes, I’ve heard the name—as a minor fact in some other god’s story. Precisely what it did, though, I can’t remember. That, of course, makes it more intriguing. Death. It was associated with endless, mindless, pointless death. But which of them isn’t?”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Flight from Nevèrÿon

Section 9.81 (p. 273)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)

“You understand, Pryn, I don’t believe in any of it: magic, miracles, religion, the calling of the gods, named or unnamed.”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Flight from Nevèrÿon

Section 9.21 (p. 248)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)

“If all human production (aesthetic or otherwise) has its documentary aspect (i. e., it can be associated, by a knowledgeable reader, with a time and place), does this endanger its aesthetic aspects per se? It is the richness of the pattern that is aesthetically at stake. How many art histories does it take to make us understand that reference (a use context) and historicity are not the same?”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Flight from Nevèrÿon

Section 8.55 (p. 241)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)

“Content, of course, must have some form. And form, of course, creates its content/commentary. This is why their chimeras have chased each other through moment after moment of history, the intense perception of one or the other producing the overwhelming effect: Art.”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Flight from Nevèrÿon

Section 8.21 (p. 232)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)

“It is the rare society that does not abuse its artists.”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Flight from Nevèrÿon

Section 7.2 (p. 216)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)

“But whatever you say of them, finally I had to dismiss such notions as the ratiocinations desire can entangle about the most sensible of us.”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Flight from Nevèrÿon

Quelle: Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985), Section 4 (p. 164)

“What makes a boy interesting does not make a man interesting.”

Help us translate this quote

Samuel R. Delany buch Flight from Nevèrÿon

Section 1 (p. 136)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)

Ähnliche Autoren

Robert Anson Heinlein Foto
Robert Anson Heinlein16
US-amerikanischer Science-Fiction-Schriftsteller None
Arthur C. Clarke Foto
Arthur C. Clarke12
britischer Science-Fiction-Schriftsteller None
Isaac Asimov Foto
Isaac Asimov40
US-amerikanischer Biochemiker und Science-Fiction-Schriftst… None
Ray Bradbury Foto
Ray Bradbury19
US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller None
Douglas Adams Foto
Douglas Adams66
britischer Schriftsteller None
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard Foto
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard2
amerikanischer Autor und Gründer von Scientology None
Ernest Hemingway Foto
Ernest Hemingway117
US-amerikanischen Schriftsteller None
Kurt Vonnegut Foto
Kurt Vonnegut4
US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller None
Richard Bach Foto
Richard Bach10
US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller None
Truman Capote Foto
Truman Capote74
US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller None