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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.

Octavia Butler

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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do.
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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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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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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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