If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself.
URSULA K. LE GUINIf you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
URSULA K. LE GUINIn 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.
URSULA K. LE GUINEvery book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
URSULA K. LE GUINWe’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
URSULA K. LE GUINThe end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
URSULA K. LE GUINResistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
URSULA K. LE GUINWhat is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat… where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.
URSULA K. LE GUINHardly 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.
URSULA K. LE GUINWe controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
URSULA K. LE GUINWhile 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.
URSULA K. LE GUINFreedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.
URSULA K. LE GUINBut it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe creative adult is the child who has survived.
URSULA K. LE GUINI doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
URSULA K. LE GUINI had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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