The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
URSULA K. LE GUINWhat is life without incompatible realities?
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You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
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I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.
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Things don’t have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What’s the function of a galaxy?
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Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
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To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
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This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars.
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Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts.
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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