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.
URSULA K. LE GUINGrieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.
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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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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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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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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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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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I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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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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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
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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 worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
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I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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