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.
URSULA K. LE GUINThere is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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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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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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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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And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.
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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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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
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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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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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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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Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.
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Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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