We read books to find out who we are.
URSULA K. LE GUINAll makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
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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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What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.
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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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What is life without incompatible realities?
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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom.
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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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The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.
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Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
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If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
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The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
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Reading is performance. The reader–the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk–performs the work.
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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