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 .
URSULA K. LE GUINSuccess is somebody else’s failure.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.
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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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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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To hear, one must be silent.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died.
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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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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 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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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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Besides, when you say you’re a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it’s kind of irresistible.
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Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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