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

— Samuel R. Delany Empire Star (1966)

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

Nova (1968)

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—

Triton (1976)

But it's always intriguing to discover the ways in which desire fuels the systems of the world.

The Mad Man (1994)

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