And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.
URSULA K. LE GUINA writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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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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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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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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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.
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Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.
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Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.
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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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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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Well, we think that time “passes,” flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see.
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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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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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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.
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There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
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