Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe 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.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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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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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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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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If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
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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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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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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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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
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Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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