It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
URSULA K. LE GUINI think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
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Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
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The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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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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We read books to find out who we are.
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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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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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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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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
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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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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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