The light is the left hand of darkness.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other–outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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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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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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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it… By using words well they strengthen their souls.
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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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The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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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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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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The 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.
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If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you’re fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.
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