What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat… where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.
URSULA K. LE GUINThat selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
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For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man’s toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.
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As men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation – you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality.
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Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it.
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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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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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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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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
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If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you’re fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.
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We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
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