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Every group we belong to – by gender, sex, race, religion, age – is an in-group, surrounded by an immense out-group, living next door and all over the world, who will be alive as far into the future as humanity has a future. That out-group is called other people. It is for them that we write.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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Deny Dragon Eaten Existence Often People
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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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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Coexist Each Found Hope Imperative Longer Myth Other Reconcile Silence Society
Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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Country Dark Earth Root
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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Anyone Attain Attainable Chance Demand Freedom Imagine Justice
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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Answer Canned Catch Eaten Metaphor Original Source Suppose Swing Word
A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. …But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
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God No Proven Religion
Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
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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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The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
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Change Come Confuse Good Goodness Intent Thing Try Well
And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
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Came Done Forgot Have Once Remember Saw Sunset Western Wind
Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison.
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Blood Hope Poison Run Take Tale Teeth
It doesn’t have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.
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Activate Eye Human Last Light Machine Need One Perform Plug Reliable
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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