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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. ↗

— 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

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

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#dying #leave #off #once #thing

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#down #frees #imprisoned #like #shelf

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#condemns #good #half #loudly #moderate

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#beyond #cases #common #her #jurisdiction

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#anything #art #care #come #else

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#doing #i #own #played #strong