Ursula K. Le Guin on no
Ursula K. Le Guin161 quotes“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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Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The light is the left hand of darkness.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin First sentences are doors to worlds.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this:
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin As men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation – you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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