Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
URSULA K. LE GUINSuccess is somebody else’s failure.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison.
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I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.
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Besides, when you say you’re a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it’s kind of irresistible.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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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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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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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.
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The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.
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I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
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