All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
URSULA K. LE GUINWe will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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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.
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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
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Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.
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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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Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
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The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
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