The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
URSULA K. LE GUINHope is a slow business.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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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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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.
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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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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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As men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation – you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality.
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All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
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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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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
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