Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
URSULA K. LE GUINI never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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We read books to find out who we are.
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But where I can get prickly and combative is, if I’m just called a sci-fi writer. I’m not. I’m a novelist and poet. Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over.
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You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own 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 light is the left hand of darkness.
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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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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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it.
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It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
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