# Quote — Samuel R. Delany, Tales of Neveryon

> While any situation could be used as an image of any other, no thing could be an image of another—especially two things as complicated as two people. And to use them as such was to abuse them and delude oneself—that it was the coherence and ability of things (especially people) to be their unique and individual selves that allowed the malleability and richness of images to occur at all.

- Author: [Samuel R. Delany](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany.md)
- Book: [Tales of Neveryon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/tales-of-neveryon.md)
- Page: 102
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany#Tales_of_Nev%C3%A8r%C3%BFon_(1979)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/tales-of-neveryon/while-any-situation

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> Look, if he’s alive, there’s nothing we have to do about it. If he’s dead, there’s nothing we can do.

p. 192 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/tales-of-neveryon/look-if-hes.md)

> The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.

p. 140 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/tales-of-neveryon/the-mark-of-the.md)

> One cannot truly trace the course of a life in a thousand pages. Let us have the reticence here not to attempt it in a thousand words.

p. 46 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/tales-of-neveryon/one-cannot-truly.md)