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We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother.

Ursula K. Le Guin

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
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Care Mean Person Say Winter Word
Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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Country Dark Earth Root
The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.
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Devotion Discover Find Important Little Thing
To hear, one must be silent.
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Hear Must One Silent
All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge.
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Anotherrmone Knowledge Local Partial Truth Untrue
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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Archive Children Compassion Great Hope Imagination Perception Scientist
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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Book Children Good Perfectly Well Real True Unicorn
Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
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Moment Nothing Remark River Same Step Twice
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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Balck Mark Pulp Story Unread Word
The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.
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Between Book Cover Reader Sall Understand Universe
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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Describe Flow Moment Next One River Try Use
What is life without incompatible realities?
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Incompatible Life Realities Without
We 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 .
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Guide Made People Show Skill Taught
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
A panda walks into a tea room and ordered a salad and ate it. Then it pulled out a pistol, shot the man in the next table dead, and walked out.
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Ate Dead Man Next Order Out Panda Pistol Pull Room Salad Shot Table Tea Walk
You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose…
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Any Die Forever Given Immortal Live Man Nothing Thing

We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother.

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