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The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?

Ursula K. Le Guin

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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud’s terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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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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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive.
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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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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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A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart.
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I certainly wasn’t happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can’t earn, and can’t keep, and often don’t even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
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Certainty Earn Happiness Happy Keep Often Reason Thing
Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison.
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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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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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