"The thing about science fiction is that it's……" — Octavia Butler
"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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100 Quotes by Octavia Butler
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write…
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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of…
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And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science…
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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 began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling…
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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is…
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More Conditional Quotes
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You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate…
— Byron Katie
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Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your…
— John D. MacDonald
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A conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be. Wherever a condition…
— Rajneesh
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The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited.
— Robert C. Solomon
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Part of the problem with extreme patriotism is that it makes the support of one's country and its policies unconditional.…
— Stephen Nathanson
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Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is…
— Ayn Rand
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The full flower of divine love and our greatest blessings from that love are conditional-predicated upon our obedience to eternal…
— Russell M. Nelson
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God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply destroyed them after…
— J I Packer
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When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is…
— Jack Kornfield
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For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance…
— Matt Taibbi
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I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You…
— Pete Newell
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