When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
URSULA K. LE GUINWhat is life without incompatible realities?
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I’m going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I’m going to unbuild walls.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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But where I can get prickly and combative is, if I’m just called a sci-fi writer. I’m not. I’m a novelist and poet. Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over.
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And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
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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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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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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.
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To the lives that haven’t been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.
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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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