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.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe 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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That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?
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If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself.
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The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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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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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows.
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I don’t know if our life has a purpose and I don’t see that it matters. What does matter is that we’re a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings.
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