“What I look for in a friend is someone who's different from me. The more different the person is, the more I'll learn from him. The more he'll come up with surprising takes on ideas and things and situations.”

—  Samuel R. Delany, book The Mad Man

Source: The Mad Man (1994), p. 239

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American author, professor and literary critic 1942

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