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Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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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Down Learn Sit Until
Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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Country Dark Earth Root
The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
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Plot Story Tell
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.
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Banker Believe Existence Hear Insane Novel People Raed Voice
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.
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Again Change Free Man Resist Restless Rigidly Soften Virtue
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
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Buy Make Nowhere Revolution Spirit
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Ask Matter One Only Question Really Yourself
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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Answer Question Right Wrong
Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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Energy Evolution Existence Itself Life Matter Time Whole
The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.
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Between Book Cover Reader Sall Understand Universe
Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other–outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.
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Civilize Man Master Other Outside Rest Self Subservient Underneath
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.
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Impronenish Made Possible Reality Relationship Thing
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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Book Essential Feel Find Guide Imaginary Ourselves Out People Real Think Understanding
Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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Another Kind Music Think Way
Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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Absolute Freedom Responsibility
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
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Book Children Good Perfectly Well Real True Unicorn

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