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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.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
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The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, – this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.
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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries.
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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Hope is a slow business.
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The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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Every group we belong to – by gender, sex, race, religion, age – is an in-group, surrounded by an immense out-group, living next door and all over the world, who will be alive as far into the future as humanity has a future. That out-group is called other people. It is for them that we write.
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Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.
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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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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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Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts.
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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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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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