The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
URSULA K. LE GUINA writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
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We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
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The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.
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We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people .
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The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries.
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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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You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
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Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit.
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The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
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All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge.
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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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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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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Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison.
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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
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