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.
URSULA K. LE GUINI think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight.
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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?
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom.
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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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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
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I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
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If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you’re fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.
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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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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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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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