Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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I'm very happy alone.
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The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments
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To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.
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'Yori, Human purpose isn’t what you say it is or what I say it is. It’s what your biology says it is-what your genes say it is.'
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Are you Earthseed? Do you believe? Belief will not save you. Only actions guided and shaped by belief and knowledge will save you. BeliefInitiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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Life was treasure. The only treasure.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
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Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.
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She was too alert, too alive not to have the kind of mind that probed and reached and got her into trouble now and then.
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She glanced at him. 'What gods do you respect?''None.''And why not?''I help myself,' he said.
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He thought about that for a moment, wondered what he should say. The truth or nothing. The truth.
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I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.
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Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.
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As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this, because I would inevitably be worse off. I would have spent more time struggling just to prove I was human than doing my work.
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All religions are ultimately cargo cults.Adherents perform required rituals, followspecific rules, and expect to be supernaturallygifted with desired rewards-long life,honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth,victory over opponents, immortality afterdeath, any desired rewards.
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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.
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Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.