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.
URSULA K. LE GUINI doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
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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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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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We read books to find out who we are.
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Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit.
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We are been taught to be ashamed of not being ‘outgoing’. But a writer’s job is ingoing.
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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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You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
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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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Besides, when you say you’re a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it’s kind of irresistible.
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You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
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We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings.
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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