All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
URSULA K. LE GUINA writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
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Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
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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.
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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows.
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive.
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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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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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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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Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic ‘libertarianism’ of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
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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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Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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