Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
URSULA K. LE GUINTo hear, one must be silent.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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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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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic ‘libertarianism’ of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early.
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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. …But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
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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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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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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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We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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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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I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own.
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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