The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
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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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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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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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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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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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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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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Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other–outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.
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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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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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