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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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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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The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.
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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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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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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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We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.
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Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
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Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.
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Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too.
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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