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With adolescence, Pryn had certainly taken on the sometimes troubling knowledge that almost anything with an outside and an inside supporting movement from one to the other could be sexually suggestive.

— Samuel R. Delany Neveryóna (1983)

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Oh, for the rebirth of an educational system where understanding was an essential part of knowledge.

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“As time progresses,” Lump stated, “people learn. That’s the only hope.”

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Bear in mind that the novel—no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective—is always a historical projection of its own time.

Nova (1968)

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

Neveryóna (1983)

And who’s to say where life ceases and theater begins—

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