Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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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I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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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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Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
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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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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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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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We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom.
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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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