Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
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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Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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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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The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
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Hope is a slow business.
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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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When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.
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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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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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Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic ‘libertarianism’ of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early.
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Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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