The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
URSULA K. LE GUINTo hear, one must be silent.
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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You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
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We read books to find out who we are.
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.
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Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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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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Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic ‘libertarianism’ of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early.
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Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.
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Listen.’ For being saved is not the point. Music saves nothing. Merciful, uncaring, it denies and breaks down all the shelters, the houses men build for themselves, that they may see the sky.
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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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Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison.
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