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 GUINWhat is life without incompatible realities?
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.
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For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man’s toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.
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Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other–outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.
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We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom.
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The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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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.
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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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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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While we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there, we hear their voices… Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
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If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself.
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To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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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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A panda walks into a tea room and ordered a salad and ate it. Then it pulled out a pistol, shot the man in the next table dead, and walked out.
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