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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.
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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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All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
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What good is music? None … and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and Leaders, music says, ‘You are irrelevant’; and, arrogant and gentle as a god, to the suffering man it says only, ‘
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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid.
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Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other–outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.
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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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Capitalism Diweine Inescapable King Poer Right Seem
Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic ‘libertarianism’ of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early.
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If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself.
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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
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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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When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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