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:
URSULA K. LE GUINCapitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else.
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself.
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Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
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We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother.
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Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it.
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The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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f we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we’ll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.
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Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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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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It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.
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