We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
URSULA K. LE GUINNobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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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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Reading is performance. The reader–the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk–performs the work.
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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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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
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Besides, when you say you’re a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it’s kind of irresistible.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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The presence of the trees was very strong…The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion.
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Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.
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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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