All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
URSULA K. LE GUINWhen you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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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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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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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it… By using words well they strengthen their souls.
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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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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The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows.
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We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
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We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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