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Ursula K. Le Guin161 quotes“I can give back to the world all that I didn’t do. All that I might have been and couldn’t be. All the choices I didn’t make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world.”
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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 GuinUrsula K. Le Guin You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man’s toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin 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.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin What good is music? None … and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and Leaders, music says, ‘You are irrelevant’; and, arrogant and gentle as a god, to the suffering man it says only, ‘
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin 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 .
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin While we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there, we hear their voices… Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The light is the left hand of darkness.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin First sentences are doors to worlds.
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We were dirt poor but we had each other. We didn’t need much to have a lot.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov One quick sip of your memory I let it slip, and I go on without you.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers If the scars on my heart were visible to the naked eye, maybe you’d think twice about inflicting more.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney I am getting better at forgetting you. I am slowly but steadily learning the art of forgetting you.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia Paper and pen petrify me, for they pierce right through me, drawing deep blue blood, leaving me utterly cold.
Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi Spend time with people who get excited over even the smallest victories you earn.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis I wonder if you were the poison or the antidote.
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I don’t think any rapper can go back. You can be a car salesman, a bank teller – I mean, really good jobs, and people are still gonna look at you and be like, ‘You used to rap; what happened?’
Jay-ZJay-Z If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
Erica JongErica Jong If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur It’s about taking advantage of the opportunities you have right now, and right now we’re in a position where you call somebody and they’re willing to pick up and take the call because they’re a fan, you have to take advantage of that and have a chance to capitalize on your ideas.
Dwyane WadeDwyane Wade Remarrying a husband you’ve divorced is like having your appendix put back in.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
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