You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
URSULA K. LE GUINWhile 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.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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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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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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Besides, when you say you’re a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it’s kind of irresistible.
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If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself.
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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
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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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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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The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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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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