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As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
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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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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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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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You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.
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Well, we think that time “passes,” flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see.
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Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.
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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother.
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