And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.
URSULA K. LE GUINA writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it… By using words well they strengthen their souls.
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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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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
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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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The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, – this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.
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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 light is the left hand of darkness.
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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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.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you’re fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.
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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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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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The presence of the trees was very strong…The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
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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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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
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All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
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We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings.
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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