Ursula K. Le Guin on after
Ursula K. Le Guin161 quotes“I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.”
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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Those 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.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin 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.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin 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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