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A quotation from Olivia Butler
Wishful thinking is no more help in predicting the future than fear, superstition or depression.
Octavia Butler (1947-2006) American writer
Essay (2000-05), “A Few Rules for Predicting the Future,” Essence Magazine
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A quotation from Olivia Butler
Wishful thinking is no more help in predicting the future than fear, superstition or depression.
Octavia Butler (1947-2006) American writer
Essay (2000-05), “A Few Rules for Predicting the Future,” Essence Magazine
More about this quote: wist.info/#:~:text=on%2017%2DJ…
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A quotation from Olivia Butler
I wanted to understand the lies that people have to tell themselves when they either quietly or joyfully watch their neighbors ruined, spirited away, killed. Different versions of this horror have happened again and again in history. They’re still happening in places like Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo and East Timor, wherever one group of people permits its leaders to convince them that for their own protection, for the safety of their families and the security of their country, they must get their enemies, those alien others who until now were their neighbors.
Octavia Butler (1947-2006) American writer
Essay (2000-05), “A Few Rules for Predicting the Future,” Essence Magazine
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A quotation from Olivia Butler
Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be lied to.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.
Octavia Butler (1947-2006) American writer
Parable of the Talents, ch. 11, epigraph (1998)
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I am only seeing my own #toots tonight, I haven't even seen a single @donmelton repost in the last 6 hours.
So I shall go to bed and read a few hours more creepy #SciFi by #OliviaButler - The next one is the book she hated so much that she pulled it from publication, so given the rest of the #Patternist series, I dread to think what that has in it!
Still at least it's not #Alien #TentaclePorn :flan_confused:
My end of year #Holiday is in sight! Thank goodness given the run up to it is driving me nuts. Loaded onto various devices are my long haul flights and #HolidayReading:
- #SarahWinman, Still Life
- #MichelleDeKrester, Scary Monsters
- #OliviaButler, Adulthood Rites
- #NKJemisin, The Stone Sky
- @adapalmer, Too Like The Lightning
I think they should all keep me good company. And an unplanned bonus, all female-identifying writers (as far as I know!) @bookstodon