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There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people .
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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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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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Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
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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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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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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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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
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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.
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If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you’re fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.
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Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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