You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
URSULA K. LE GUINYou sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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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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If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you’re fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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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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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.
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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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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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.
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As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music.
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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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You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
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