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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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We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. …But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
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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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as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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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.
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You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
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We are been taught to be ashamed of not being ‘outgoing’. But a writer’s job is ingoing.
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The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, – this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart.
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The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive.
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The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries.
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