When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
URSULA K. LE GUINAs great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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Well, we think that time “passes,” flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see.
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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
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If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself.
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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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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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It doesn’t have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.
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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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We read books to find out who we are.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own.
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