I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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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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The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries.
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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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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.
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It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.
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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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as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
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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.
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Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this:
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Besides, when you say you’re a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it’s kind of irresistible.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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