I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
URSULA K. LE GUINTo have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
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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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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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We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings.
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We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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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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Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.
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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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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
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