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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More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man’s toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.
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The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, – this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.
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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.
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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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Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too.
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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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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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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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When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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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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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:
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