Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic ‘libertarianism’ of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early.
URSULA K. LE GUINI don’t know if our life has a purpose and I don’t see that it matters. What does matter is that we’re a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.
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We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people .
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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid.
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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it… By using words well they strengthen their souls.
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
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The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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I don’t know if our life has a purpose and I don’t see that it matters. What does matter is that we’re a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.
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