Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
URSULA K. LE GUINLife goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
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Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer’s first duty is to use language well.
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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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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts.
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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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 controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
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