I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
URSULA K. LE GUINMusic is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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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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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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As men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation – you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality.
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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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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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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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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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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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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive.
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