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You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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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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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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Child Creative Adult Survive
Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
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Art Being Often Resistance Change Word
Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.
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First Get Goes Going Hate Hold Inside Lighter Older Round Stick Until
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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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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Answer Question Right Wrong
A panda walks into a tea room and ordered a salad and ate it. Then it pulled out a pistol, shot the man in the next table dead, and walked out.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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Come Intolerable Make Only Permanent Possible Uncertainty
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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Bread Just Love Made New Remade Sit Stone Time
A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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Repair Transdended Wrong
Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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Country Dark Earth Root
Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
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Amazon Content Contentment Culture Every Book Made Purchase Vote
The light is the left hand of darkness.
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Darkness Hanf Left Light

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