Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
URSULA K. LE GUINas 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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We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope.
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Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud’s terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things.
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We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom.
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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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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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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
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We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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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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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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We are been taught to be ashamed of not being ‘outgoing’. But a writer’s job is ingoing.
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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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