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    Octavia E. Butler
    “All that you touch
    You Change.

    All that you Change
    Changes you.

    The only lasting truth
    is Change.

    God
    is Change.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler
    tags: change, god
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    E.E. Cummings
    “may came home with a smooth round stone
    as small as a world and as large as alone.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: loneliness, poetry, travel
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    Joseph Campbell
    “If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: life
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    Joseph Campbell
    “If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.”
    ― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
    tags: atheists, believers, metaphor, myth, organized-religion, religion, theists
    387 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: rah
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday
    tags: manners, society
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cult, danger, law, organized-religion, power, religion, sect, separation-of-church-and-state
    429 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: benediction, blessing, life, love
    357 likes

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    Octavia E. Butler
    “When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “Drowning people
    Sometimes die
    Fighting their rescuers.”
    ― Octavia Butler
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “There is no end
    To what a living world
    Will demand of you.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
    tags: demands, life, living, novels, science-fiction, world
    284 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Margaret Atwood
    “If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
    tags: foresight, knowledge, women
    1596 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
    tags: education
    2375 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: apocryphal, feminism
    3942 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
    tags: evil, stupidity
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    Margaret Atwood
    “We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
    We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: freedom, stories
    1787 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: love
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    Margaret Atwood
    “You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: jealousy
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    Margaret Atwood
    “What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood
    tags: purpose
    369 likes

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  • #25
    Margaret Atwood
    “There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
    tags: dogma, extremism, fanaticism, god, inhumanity, justification, religion
    267 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “Time folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you away until it's time for you to become someone else's past time, and then time folds again.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Tent
    tags: life, time
    112 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Was that the beginning, that evening—on the dock of Avilion, with the fireworks dazzling the sky? It's hard to know. Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
    tags: beginnings
    206 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavors, in the air or on the tongue, half-colors, too many.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: stories, writing
    332 likes

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  • #30
    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
    16752 likes



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