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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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Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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Another Kind Music Think Way
The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
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Change Come Confuse Good Goodness Intent Thing Try Well
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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Come Intolerable Make Only Permanent Possible Uncertainty
Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
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Amazon Content Contentment Culture Every Book Made Purchase Vote
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
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Book Essential Feel Find Guide Imaginary Ourselves Out People Real Think Understanding
Listen.’ For being saved is not the point. Music saves nothing. Merciful, uncaring, it denies and breaks down all the shelters, the houses men build for themselves, that they may see the sky.
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Break Build Down House Listen Nothing Point Save Sky Themselves Uncare
Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit.
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Capitalism Die Growth Imperative Interdependence Limit Odd Radical Stand
While 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.
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Banker Believe Existence Hear Insane Novel People Raed Voice
Well, we think that time “passes,” flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see.
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Always Discover Forward Future Move New Pass Past Think Time
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I’m going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I’m going to unbuild walls.
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Build Own Prison Wall
Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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Been Ever Hero Nobody Say Told
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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Arre Great One Oneself Thing
I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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Evil Hard Hole Soul Take Unconsisting
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Ask Matter One Only Question Really Yourself
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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Destroy Goes Itself Long Too Unchanged
Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud’s terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things.
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Fantasy Height Realistic Reality Surrealistic Traditional

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