The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive.
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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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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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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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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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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f we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we’ll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.
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Besides, when you say you’re a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it’s kind of irresistible.
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I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
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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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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat… where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.
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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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When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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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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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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