I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.
URSULA K. LE GUINIf 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.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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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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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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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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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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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
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Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.
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The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
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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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