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'But, like many less-adventurous folk, he had about decided that such intermittent pleasure was all he could expect under the burden of his perversion.'

'The most important thing about the modernist tradition – I’m not even starting in on the problems of post-modernism – and by modernism I mean from the revolution of 1848 on, the last hundred and fifty-six years, is that art has to be new.'

'... I realized for the first time that critics were not the people whom, necessarily, you trust.'

'...somehow pre-Stonewall fear of discovery had been replaced by a post-Stonewall sense of vulgarity in all this public discussion of what, after all, surely should be private.'

Such a Delany question:

'Once Arnold had wondered how to pronounce parentheses. Years ago he'd given up and now said them as if the first were a hyphen and the second not there.'