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“I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.” quote by Octavia E. Butler — Download Open image

“I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.”

Octavia E. Butler

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“He rubbed his head again. 'Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer.”

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“Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn't say them, couldn't sort out my feelings about them, couldn't keep them bottled inside me.”

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“In the book of Job, God says he made everything and he knows everything so no one has any right to question what he does with any of it. Okay. That works. That Old Testament God doesn’t violate the way things are now. But that God sounds a lot like Zeus—a super-powerful man, playing with his toys the way my…

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“But there’s no power in having strength and brains, and yet waiting for God to fix things for you or take revenge for you.”

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