Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe story is not in the plot but in the telling.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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We read books to find out who we are.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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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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I can give back to the world all that I didn’t do. All that I might have been and couldn’t be. All the choices I didn’t make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world.
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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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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
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Every group we belong to – by gender, sex, race, religion, age – is an in-group, surrounded by an immense out-group, living next door and all over the world, who will be alive as far into the future as humanity has a future. That out-group is called other people. It is for them that we write.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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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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This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars.
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