To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
URSULA K. LE GUINI think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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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.
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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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To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
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I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.
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We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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We read books to find out who we are.
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Well, we think that time “passes,” flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see.
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