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We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
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We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings.
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Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
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I certainly wasn’t happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can’t earn, and can’t keep, and often don’t even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
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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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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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It doesn’t have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.
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You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose…
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It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.
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Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic ‘libertarianism’ of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early.
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By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.
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You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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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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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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Besides, when you say you’re a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it’s kind of irresistible.
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Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison.
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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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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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But where I can get prickly and combative is, if I’m just called a sci-fi writer. I’m not. I’m a novelist and poet. Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over.
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Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit.
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Reading is performance. The reader–the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk–performs the work.
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