The creative adult is the child who has survived.
URSULA K. LE GUINWe 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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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you’re fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
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Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.
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The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.
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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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We are been taught to be ashamed of not being ‘outgoing’. But a writer’s job is ingoing.
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