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Octavia E. Butler
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„“I didn’t want to scare you. We don’t want to scare anyone.”“No? Well, sometimes it’s a good thing to scare people. Sometimes fear is all that will keep them from doing stupid things.”“
„:What we’re permitted to see.“
„A victim of God may,Through learning adaption,Become a partner of God,A victim of God may,Through forethought and planning,Become a shaper of God.Or a victim of God may,Through shortsightedness and fear,Remain God’s victim,God’s plaything,God’s prey.“
„If you hear nonsense like that often enough for long enough, you begin to believe it.“
„:What we’re told that we think.“
„I realize I don’t know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.“
„:::by all that the coward fears.“
„She was too alert, too alive not to have the kind of mind that probed and reached and got her into trouble now and then.“
„How completely, how thoroughly he has stolen my child. I have never even tried to forgive him.“
„I’m literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.“
„She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones.“
„:Almost by reflex“
„:To be led by a liar“
„I didn’t want to scare you. We don’t want to scare anyone.“
„You’re truly free for the first time. What could be more difficult than that?“
„They can create something beautiful, useful, even something worthless. But they create. They don’t destroy.“
„Who knows what we humans have that others might be willing to take in trade for a livable space on a world not our own.“
„Jarrett would be easier to take if he cared half as much about children’s bodies and minds as he pretends to care about their souls.“
„Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Yet intelligence is demanding. If it is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying.“
„He was surprised when I ignored him. He is wealthy and arrogant and used to being listened to even when what he says is nonsense—as it often is.“
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