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Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
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I can give back to the world all that I didn’t do. All that I might have been and couldn’t be. All the choices I didn’t make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world.
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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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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
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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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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Hope is a slow business.
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Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
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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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What good is music? None … and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and Leaders, music says, ‘You are irrelevant’; and, arrogant and gentle as a god, to the suffering man it says only, ‘
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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Deny Dragon Eaten Existence Often People
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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