Things don’t have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What’s the function of a galaxy?
URSULA K. LE GUINLying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.
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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.
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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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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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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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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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Besides, when you say you’re a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it’s kind of irresistible.
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I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.
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We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings.
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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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