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.
URSULA K. LE GUINA child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
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Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too.
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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. …But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
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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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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
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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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