Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
URSULA K. LE GUINCivilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other–outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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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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We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge.
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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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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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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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The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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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.
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I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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