To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
URSULA K. LE GUIN
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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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Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Reading is performance. The reader–the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk–performs the work.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. …But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin 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.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin f we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we’ll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin 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.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart.
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