The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
URSULA K. LE GUINWhat 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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We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
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Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.
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When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.
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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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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
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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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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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f we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we’ll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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