"In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us that our future would be better than our past, that our common problems would be solved, that we, as a species, were fundamentally good, and that the universe would reward us for our goodness."

-- Charles Shaar Murray

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“(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.”
“Everything but happiness is neurosis.”
“If I were God, I would just be up there scratching my head, thinking, 'What the hell am I supposed to do with this?' For everyone helping an old lady across the street, there's someone else bludgeoning a person to death. And sometimes they're the same. How can He separate us all out?”
“L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.”
“I understand now my father really thought he was doing me good. Education means a lot to Palestinians. Weâ€™ve become some of the most educated people in the world through our diaspora. Weâ€™ve had to be. When you ainâ€™t got land, your degree may be your only solid ground. May father felt (feels) that being a doctor would give me security. How can I explain that Iâ€™m not safe from anything if I donâ€™t write?”
“It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. If I don't come back in eleven months, I will not be missed, and no one will write me or call me to acknowledge my absence. Which is not an accusation, just a small truth about clan and bloodline.”
“I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were a safe place, where nobody even locked their doors.”

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“Where there is a woman there is magic.”

Source : Ntozake Shange (2010). “Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel”, p.9, Macmillan

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