When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.
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What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.
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We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.
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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart.
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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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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 danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
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The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows.
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My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
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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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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
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