The creative adult is the child who has survived.
URSULA K. LE GUINI do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too.
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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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There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat… where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
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Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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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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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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