A panda walks into a tea room and ordered a salad and ate it. Then it pulled out a pistol, shot the man in the next table dead, and walked out.
URSULA K. LE GUINHardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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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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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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It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.
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And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.
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The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
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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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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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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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Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
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