We are been taught to be ashamed of not being ‘outgoing’. But a writer’s job is ingoing.
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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Well, we think that time “passes,” flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see.
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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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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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Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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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.
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If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
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To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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