Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
URSULA K. LE GUINYou can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
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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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What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.
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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
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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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We 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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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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We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart.
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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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The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
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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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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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