as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
URSULA K. LE GUINFantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud’s terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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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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Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.
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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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Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
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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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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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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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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 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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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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