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Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.
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Deeper Isaknd Making Moon Older Power Root Tree Woman
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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All Before Know Need Place Rare
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
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End Good Journey Matters Towards
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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Bought Free Freedom Fresh Loneliness Solitude Writer
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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Choose Privilege
There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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Corporation Disinformation Information Only
I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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Imagine Invest Learn Live Make
To hear, one must be silent.
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Hear Must One Silent
Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this:
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All Ask Brave Catering Group Lie Opinion Personal Question Safety Validity Writer
The 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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Beautiful Bright Dark Druel Earth Existence Terrible
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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Back Forgotten Give Light Much World
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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The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
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In 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.
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Bite Blood Come End Hope Live Middle Position Run Take Tale Telling

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