We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe story is not in the plot but in the telling.
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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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While we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there, we hear their voices… Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
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It doesn’t have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.
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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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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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