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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Ask Matter One Only Question Really Yourself
We read books to find out who we are.
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Book Find Out Read
We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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Alone Dark Each Hand Hold Out Sure
I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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Evil Hard Hole Soul Take Unconsisting
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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Capitalism Diweine Inescapable King Poer Right Seem
First sentences are doors to worlds.
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First Sentence World
I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope.
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Alternative Come Fear Hard See Society Stricken Think Through Time Voice Want Will Writer
The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.
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Best Country Guide Instruction Life Literature Manual Oprtae Visit
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
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Down Learn Sit Until
For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man’s toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.
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Again Change Free Man Resist Restless Rigidly Soften Virtue
Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this:
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All Ask Brave Catering Group Lie Opinion Personal Question Safety Validity Writer
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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Come Intolerable Make Only Permanent Possible Uncertainty
All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge.
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Anotherrmone Knowledge Local Partial Truth Untrue
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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Ate Dead Man Next Order Out Panda Pistol Pull Room Salad Shot Table Tea Walk
My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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All Coem Direction Out Pigeonhole Tentacle
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
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Book Children Good Perfectly Well Real True Unicorn

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