Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows.
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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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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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Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
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As men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation – you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality.
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We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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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.
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself.
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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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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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