We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
URSULA K. LE GUINListen.’ For being saved is not the point. Music saves nothing. Merciful, uncaring, it denies and breaks down all the shelters, the houses men build for themselves, that they may see the sky.
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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.
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Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.
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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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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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Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people .
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Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud’s terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things.
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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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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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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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