The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
URSULA K. LE GUINWell, we think that time “passes,” flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see.
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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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We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
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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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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music.
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To the lives that haven’t been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.
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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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Well, we think that time “passes,” flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid.
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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.
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You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.
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