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URSULA K. LE GUINThe worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
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There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
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As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge.
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As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music.
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It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.
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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid.
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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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I can give back to the world all that I didn’t do. All that I might have been and couldn’t be. All the choices I didn’t make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world.
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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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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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The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.
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I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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