Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
URSULA K. LE GUINThere’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.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this:
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We read books to find out who we are.
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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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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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
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You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
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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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The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer’s first duty is to use language well.
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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it… By using words well they strengthen their souls.
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