The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself.
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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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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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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, – this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.
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The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.
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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 wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
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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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If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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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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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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