The light is the left hand of darkness.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe light is the left hand of darkness.
URSULA K. LE GUINAll knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge.
URSULA K. LE GUINPeople who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
URSULA K. LE GUINMusic is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
URSULA K. LE GUINWhat sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
URSULA K. LE GUINTo have a choice at all is to be privileged.
URSULA K. LE GUINTo 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.
URSULA K. LE GUINHope is a slow business.
URSULA K. LE GUINNo darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
URSULA K. LE GUINWhat good is music? None … and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and Leaders, music says, ‘You are irrelevant’; and, arrogant and gentle as a god, to the suffering man it says only, ‘
URSULA K. LE GUINLife–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
URSULA K. LE GUINTo think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
URSULA K. LE GUINIt 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.
URSULA K. LE GUINWe need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people .
URSULA K. LE GUINLight is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
URSULA K. LE GUINWe live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings.
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