We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
URSULA K. LE GUINThat selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?
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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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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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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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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope.
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It doesn’t have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.
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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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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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We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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