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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

by Octavia E. Butler

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“Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.”
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“There's a grain of truth in every fairy tale.. Love and blood. They both posses a mighty power. Wizards and learned men have been racking their brains over this for years, but they haven't arrived at anything except that-"
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― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

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― O. Henry, Selected Stories

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“Now, there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Miles Errant

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“Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there....”
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