All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
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.
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We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.
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Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
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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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For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man’s toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.
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Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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We read books to find out who we are.
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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. …But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
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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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The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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