Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
URSULA K. LE GUINYou can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer’s first duty is to use language 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 it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. …But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
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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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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive.
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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To the lives that haven’t been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.
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