Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
URSULA K. LE GUINThere is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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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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Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
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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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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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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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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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I can give back to the world all that I didn’t do. All that I might have been and couldn’t be. All the choices I didn’t make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world.
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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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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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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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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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