We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
URSULA K. LE GUINFantasy 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.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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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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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.
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The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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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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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat… where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.
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We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
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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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