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Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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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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Reading is performance. The reader–the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk–performs the work.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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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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Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I’m going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I’m going to unbuild walls.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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Destroy Goes Itself Long Too Unchanged
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
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