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 light is the left hand of darkness.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.
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The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, – this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.
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Hope is a slow business.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom.
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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid.
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I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope.
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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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Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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