All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
URSULA K. LE GUINLife goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
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Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.
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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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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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When you light a candle, you also 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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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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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
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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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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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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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Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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