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URSULA K. LE GUINThose who build walls are their own prisoners.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.
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The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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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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Civilized 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.
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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 writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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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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f we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we’ll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.
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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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Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison.
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I certainly wasn’t happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can’t earn, and can’t keep, and often don’t even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
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The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.
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While we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there, we hear their voices… Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
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Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit.
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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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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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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
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Listen.’ 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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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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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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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
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