Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
URSULA K. LE GUINIt’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.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you’re fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.
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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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A panda walks into a tea room and ordered a salad and ate it. Then it pulled out a pistol, shot the man in the next table dead, and walked out.
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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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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
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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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as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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While we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there, we hear their voices… Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
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I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own.
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Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison.
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