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Listen.’ For being saved is not the point. Music saves nothing. Merciful, uncaring, it denies and breaks down all the shelters, the houses men build for themselves, that they may see the sky.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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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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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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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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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. …But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
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We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people .
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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 creative adult is the child who has survived.
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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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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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Every group we belong to – by gender, sex, race, religion, age – is an in-group, surrounded by an immense out-group, living next door and all over the world, who will be alive as far into the future as humanity has a future. That out-group is called other people. It is for them that we write.
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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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Reading is performance. The reader–the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk–performs the work.
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