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.
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.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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To the lives that haven’t been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.
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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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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.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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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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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid.
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Hope is a slow business.
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I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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