Hardly 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 GUINThe Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows.
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There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
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To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself.
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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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But where I can get prickly and combative is, if I’m just called a sci-fi writer. I’m not. I’m a novelist and poet. Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over.
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For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man’s toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.
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That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?
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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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Besides, when you say you’re a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it’s kind of irresistible.
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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid.
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You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
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Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it.
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Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
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