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Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
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Adult Believe Child Dead Maturity Outgrowing Survive
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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Awake Courahege Injustice Make Rule
Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it.
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Call Chnagebale Ever Faithless Honor Jealous Men Sexual Some Threatened Through Truth Women
Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
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Moment Nothing Remark River Same Step Twice
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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Crazy Live Person Sane World
I can give back to the world all that I didn’t do. All that I might have been and couldn’t be. All the choices I didn’t make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world.
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Back Choice Give Lost Thing Waste World
I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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After Care Come Dragon Morning Seen Wind
I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own.
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Different Fiction Good Kind Name Science Think Write
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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Answer Question Right Wrong
Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud’s terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things.
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Fantasy Height Realistic Reality Surrealistic Traditional
It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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Content Evil Hard Hold Soul Very
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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Destroy Goes Itself Long Too Unchanged
A panda walks into a tea room and ordered a salad and ate it. Then it pulled out a pistol, shot the man in the next table dead, and walked out.
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Ate Dead Man Next Order Out Panda Pistol Pull Room Salad Shot Table Tea Walk
The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.
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Best Country Guide Instruction Life Literature Manual Oprtae Visit
A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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Adult Box Either Kid Speak Upset Writer
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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Care Mena Say Soul Strengthen Use Well Word Writer
We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
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Freedom Large Need Poet Realist Reality Remember Visionary Writer
You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
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Change Crush Idea Ignore Refuse Suppressing Think
For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man’s toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.
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Again Change Free Man Resist Restless Rigidly Soften Virtue
To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
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Claim End Good Likely Over Power Understand Wise
We are been taught to be ashamed of not being ‘outgoing’. But a writer’s job is ingoing.
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Ashamed Been Job Outgoing Taught Winter
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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Book Essential Feel Find Guide Imaginary Ourselves Out People Real Think Understanding
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid.
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Bad Consider Encouragement Habit Happiness Pedant Sophisticate Stupid Trouble
Success is somebody else’s failure.
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Else Failure Somebody Success
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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Come Intolerable Make Only Permanent Possible Uncertainty
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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Know Language Lie Misuse Need Remember Round
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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Back Forgotten Give Light Much World

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