“Life is getting better, but that won’t stop a war if politicians and business people decide it’s to their advantage to have one.”

— Octavia E. Butler, book Parable of the Talents

Source: Parable of the Talents (1998), Chapter 5 (p. 90)

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American science fiction writer 1947–2006

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