What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
URSULA K. LE GUINWe are been taught to be ashamed of not being ‘outgoing’. But a writer’s job is ingoing.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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Things don’t have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What’s the function of a galaxy?
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We are been taught to be ashamed of not being ‘outgoing’. But a writer’s job is ingoing.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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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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We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings.
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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 be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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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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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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The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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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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