You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
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 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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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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Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
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The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
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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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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
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All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge.
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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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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid.
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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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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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