A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart.
URSULA K. LE GUINHope is a slow business.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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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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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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Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.
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All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
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Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison.
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The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
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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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When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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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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The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries.
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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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Well, we think that time “passes,” flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see.
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