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Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this:
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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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We read books to find out who we are.
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To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
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You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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