Quotes by Octavia E. Butler

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."

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"Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself."

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"Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not."

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"Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish."

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"Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything."

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"People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't."

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