Listen.’ For being saved is not the point. Music saves nothing. Merciful, uncaring, it denies and breaks down all the shelters, the houses men build for themselves, that they may see the sky.
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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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
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If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
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We are been taught to be ashamed of not being ‘outgoing’. But a writer’s job is ingoing.
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Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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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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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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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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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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f we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we’ll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.
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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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