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Octavia Butler Quotes: I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.
         

I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.


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In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.



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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

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