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What is truth? The traditional answer is that truth is a correspondence between what’s thought or said and a reality that exists independently of what’s thought or said.
“Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.”
― The Thief's Journal
― The Thief's Journal
“The ability of anyone in the culture to support and honour gay kids may depend on an ability to name them as such, notwithstanding that many gay adults may never have been gay kids and some gay kids may not turn into gay adults.”
― Epistemology of the Closet
― Epistemology of the Closet
“The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.”
― Conversations with Samuel R. Delany
― Conversations with Samuel R. Delany
“The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing. ... All I have been left is the exhausting habit of trying to tack up the slack in my life with words.”
― Dhalgren
― Dhalgren
“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
Rick’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rick’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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223 friends
42 books
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327 friends
577 books
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73 friends
1,917 books
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841 friends
507 books
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18 friends
1,022 books
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309 friends
227 books
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42 friends
133 books
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14 friends
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