I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
URSULA K. LE GUINWhen you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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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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If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself.
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What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.
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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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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid.
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All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge.
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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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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Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
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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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You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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