People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
URSULA K. LE GUIN
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as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
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Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin 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?
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin It doesn’t have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin 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?
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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