For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man’s toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.
URSULA K. LE GUINA writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
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There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
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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.
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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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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.
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I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
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The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
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I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.
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We read books to find out who we are.
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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.
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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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