A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
URSULA K. LE GUINBy 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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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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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
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While we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there, we hear their voices… Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
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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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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose…
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My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died.
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When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
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Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
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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.
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