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What is life without incompatible realities?

Ursula K. Le Guin

Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
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Art Being Change Human Poet Resist Word
That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?
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Endure Glow Gone Save Sea Selfhood Treasure Yourself
Success is somebody else’s failure.
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Else Failure Somebody Success
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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Again Change Free Man Resist Restless Rigidly Soften Virtue
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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Destroy Goes Itself Long Too Unchanged
Besides, when you say you’re a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it’s kind of irresistible.
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Annoy Besides Bigot Demist Fant Irresistible Kind Ladies Musch Old Prissy Say
I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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After Care Come Dragon Morning Seen Wind
What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat… where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.
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Answer Canned Catch Eaten Metaphor Original Source Suppose Swing Word
You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose…
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Any Die Forever Given Immortal Live Man Nothing Thing
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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All Before Know Need Place Rare
We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother.
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Change Grandmother Matter Moon Mother Virgin Wife
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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Child Creative Adult Survive
My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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All Coem Direction Out Pigeonhole Tentacle
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
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Care Mean Person Say Winter Word
The presence of the trees was very strong…The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion.
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Came Dep Life Massive Religion Silence Strong Tree
The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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Above Abyss Always Dance Hollow Place Terrible

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