Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
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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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
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Things don’t have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What’s the function of a galaxy?
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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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We 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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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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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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When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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While we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there, we hear their voices… Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
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Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
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The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.
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