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Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#changing #could #here #i #leaning

And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure. ↗

— William Allen Butler

#keeps #lofty #secure #she #state

The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#effective #objectives #states #suspicion #terror

The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities. ↗

— Judith Butler

#centers #constitute #disciplinary #displacement #marginal

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#anything #attracted #because #condition #examining

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. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#ancestry #emotional #feel #get #i

What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#back #because #become #biological #bit

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#headache #intoxication #only #precede #virtue

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#got #like #live #make #must

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#man #nothing #serious #seriously #should