What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
URSULA K. LE GUINThe road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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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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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
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You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities.
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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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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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As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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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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To hear, one must be silent.
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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
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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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Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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