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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.

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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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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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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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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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The big talent is persistence.
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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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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
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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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And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
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A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.
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