Quotes from Triton — Samuel R. Delany
born 1942 United States
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And who’s to say where life ceases and theater begins—
Triton (1976)
Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.
Triton (1976)
The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts, but that it generates a way of thinking.
Triton (1976)
Topologically, men and women are identical. Some things are just larger and more developed in one than the other and positioned differently.
Triton (1976)
Political commitment isn’t a perimeter, Sam; it’s a parameter. Don’t you ever wonder? Don’t you ever doubt?
Triton (1976)
She simply has no concept of what’s real and what’s fantasy—did I say? She’s in the theater.
Triton (1976)
Finally I just had to get out. Because when that fantasy seeps into the reality, she just becomes an incredibly ugly person. She feels she can distort anything that occurs for whatever purpose she wants. Whatever she feels, that’s what is, as far as she’s concerned.
Triton (1976)
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.
Triton (1976)
The whole problem, I suppose, is that any time some piece of communication strikes poor Fred, or any of the remaining Beasts, for that matter, as possibly meaningful—or is it meaningless? It’s been explained to me a dozen times and I still can’t get it right—anyway, his religious convictions say he has to either stop it or—barring that—refuse to be a party to it.
Triton (1976)