Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I’m going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I’m going to unbuild walls.
URSULA K. LE GUINThings 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?
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
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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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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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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 misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.
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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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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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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
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We read books to find out who we are.
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