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The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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To hear, one must be silent.
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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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Listen.’ For being saved is not the point. Music saves nothing. Merciful, uncaring, it denies and breaks down all the shelters, the houses men build for themselves, that they may see the sky.
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Break Build Down House Listen Nothing Point Save Sky Themselves Uncare
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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You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
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Asian Home Long never Place Understand
Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit.
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Capitalism Die Growth Imperative Interdependence Limit Odd Radical Stand
The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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End Goes Light never Reach Road Towards Traveler Upward
Well, we think that time “passes,” flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see.
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Always Discover Forward Future Move New Pass Past Think Time
To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
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Claim End Good Likely Over Power Understand Wise
Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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Artist Banality Evil Intellectual Interest Pain Refusal Terrible Treason
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else.
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Anything Art Else Entirely Fell Increasingly Itself Mysterious Translate Translation Writing
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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Call Chnagebale Ever Faithless Honor Jealous Men Sexual Some Threatened Through Truth Women
Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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Absolute Freedom Responsibility
Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison.
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Blood Hope Poison Run Take Tale Teeth

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