Besides, when you say you’re a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it’s kind of irresistible.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Light 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.
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I can give back to the world all that I didn’t do. All that I might have been and couldn’t be. All the choices I didn’t make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world.
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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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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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Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts.
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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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The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.
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Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too.
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The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
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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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