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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

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Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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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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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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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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The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.
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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
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