What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
URSULA K. LE GUINWe 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 .
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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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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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
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You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose…
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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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We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom.
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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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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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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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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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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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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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