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The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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To hear, one must be silent.
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Hear Must One Silent
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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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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Capitalism Diweine Inescapable King Poer Right Seem
I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.
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Being Believe Child Exist Faculties Human Imagination Mature Power
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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Child Creative Adult Survive
We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
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Hope is a slow business.
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Business Hope Slow
It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.
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All Before Know Need Place Rare
What is life without incompatible realities?
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Incompatible Life Realities Without
I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope.
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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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Down Learn Sit Until
And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
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Came Done Forgot Have Once Remember Saw Sunset Western Wind
My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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All Coem Direction Out Pigeonhole Tentacle
No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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Darkness Forever Last Star
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Ask Matter One Only Question Really Yourself
For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man’s toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.
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Again Change Free Man Resist Restless Rigidly Soften Virtue

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