Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.
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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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Now I have been raped.It happened twice. Once on Monday, and again yesterday. It is my Christmas gift from Christian America.
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Margaret Weylin complained because she couldn’t find anything to complain about.
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The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.
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Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.
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If you don’t care about my people, why should I care about yours?
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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Short-lived people, people who could die, did not know what enemies loneliness and boredom could be.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
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We give our deadTo the orchardsAnd the groves.We give our deadTo life.
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He didn’t look all right to me. 'Has anyone gone for the doctor?''Marse Tom don’t hardly get Doc West for ague. He says all the doc knows is bleeding and blistering and purging and puking and making folks sicker than they was to start.'
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Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn’t vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.
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If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible
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A pet. In pets, free will was tolerated only as long as the pet owner found it amusing.
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'What will they do when they have only the herbs' he asked her.'Live or die as best they can,' she said. 'Everything truly alive dies sooner or later.'
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'From what I’ve read,' I said to him, 'the world goes crazy every three or four decades. The trick is to survive until it goes sane again.'
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I’m literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.
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Jarrett would be easier to take if he cared half as much about children’s bodies and minds as he pretends to care about their souls.
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I might not have believed this if a Human had said it. Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everybody had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant.
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There’s no narcotic like exhaustion.