Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud’s terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things.
URSULA K. LE GUINWhat is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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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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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
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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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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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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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We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.
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