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URSULA K. LE GUIN
URSULA K. LE GUIN
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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.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin 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?
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin To the lives that haven’t been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin 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.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin
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Believe in things you accept than regretting in your disbeliefs.
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Brianna PastorBrianna Pastor If I could have a few extra seconds I’d waste them entirely on you.
Shelby CaudleShelby Caudle If you only enjoy the chase I’m not racing anymore, I’ve set my own pace.
Shannon Van AlstShannon Van Alst You’re a patched tapestry, of deep childhood trauma’s, and unkept promises.
Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi I dont give a Rats Ass in what others think. That is how I became successful
Little PaulsonLittle Paulson Transient emptiness over irreparable brokenness.
Anamika GargAnamika Garg Keep the energy-burning, there’s no limit to what you can achieve.
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