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.
URSULA K. LE GUINThose who build walls are their own prisoners. I’m going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I’m going to unbuild walls.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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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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We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people .
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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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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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You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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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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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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