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Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
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I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?
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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 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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Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
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Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic ‘libertarianism’ of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early.
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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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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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Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.
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Reading is performance. The reader–the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk–performs the work.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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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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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 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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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
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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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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it.
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Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
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Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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