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To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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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.
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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
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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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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope.
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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid.
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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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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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Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight.
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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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That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?
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