Life, I sometimes think-like dreams, like stories, like plans, even like lies if you will-is to be pondered on, interpreted, interrogated: but you had best not try to change it too radically in the middle, or you risk never finding its secret. (Samuel R. Delany)

Life, I sometimes think-like dreams, like stories, like plans, even like lies if you will-is to be pondered on, interpreted, interrogated: but you had best not try to change it too radically in the middle, or you risk never finding its secret.

Samuel R. Delany

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