What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
URSULA K. LE GUINSafety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this:
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
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We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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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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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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To the lives that haven’t been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.
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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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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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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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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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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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We are been taught to be ashamed of not being ‘outgoing’. But a writer’s job is ingoing.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people .
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