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We are been taught to be ashamed of not being ‘outgoing’. But a writer’s job is ingoing.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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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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We are been taught to be ashamed of not being ‘outgoing’. But a writer’s job is ingoing.
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We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.
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This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars.
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Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts.
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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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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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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat… where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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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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Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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