Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too.
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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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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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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Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison.
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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Hope is a slow business.
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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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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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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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