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.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe creative adult is the child who has survived.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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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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If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself.
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Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
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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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Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
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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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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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I can give back to the world all that I didn’t do. All that I might have been and couldn’t be. All the choices I didn’t make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world.
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As men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation – you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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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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f we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we’ll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.
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Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison.
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