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Hardly 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.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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Things don’t have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What’s the function of a galaxy?
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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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We read books to find out who we are.
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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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The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer’s first duty is to use language well.
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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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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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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 two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive.
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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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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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While we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there, we hear their voices… Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
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