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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.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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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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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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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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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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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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Deny Dragon Eaten Existence Often People
Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
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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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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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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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Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud’s terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things.
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Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.
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