You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
URSULA K. LE GUINWe 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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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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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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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
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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 been taught to be ashamed of not being ‘outgoing’. But a writer’s job is ingoing.
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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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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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Freedom 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.
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
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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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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it… By using words well they strengthen their souls.
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