We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings.
URSULA K. LE GUINWe cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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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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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
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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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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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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities.
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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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Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts.
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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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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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