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I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. – Octavia Butler

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What Im working on now – Im back to fantasy, although considering that its me, Im turning it into a kind of science fantasy. Its a vampire story – but my vampires are biological vampires. They didnt become vampires because someone bit them they were born that way. – Octavia Butler

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So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy. – Octavia Butler

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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. – Octavia Butler

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Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted. – Ray Comfort

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Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works. – Lewis Thomas

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A body of work such as Pasteurs is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. – Jean Rostand

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In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst. – Denise Mina

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The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty. – Jesse Bennett

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I dont listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. Its all quite dramatic and atmospheric. Youd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music – I couldnt sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song. – Amy Winehouse

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People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication. – Yoko Ono

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I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate – treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldnt be sustainable for me, and thats what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life. – Alanis Morissette

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