The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.
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You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.
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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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By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.
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I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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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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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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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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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries.
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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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When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man’s toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.
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