All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
URSULA K. LE GUINEither we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
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Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight.
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While we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there, we hear their voices… Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other–outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.
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Reading is performance. The reader–the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk–performs the work.
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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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