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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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Back Forgotten Give Light Much World
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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Guide Made People Show Skill Taught
Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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Energy Evolution Existence Itself Life Matter Time Whole
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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Anyone Attain Attainable Chance Demand Freedom Imagine Justice
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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Bright Die Empty Hawk Light Only Silence Sky Word
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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Capitalism Diweine Inescapable King Poer Right Seem
Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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Build Own Prisoner Wall
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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Civilize Man Master Other Outside Rest Self Subservient Underneath
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.
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Book Course Creation Participate Read Size Soul Temper
The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Balance Candle Cast Light Shadow World
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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Imagine Invest Learn Live Make
Hope is a slow business.
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Business Hope Slow
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
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Fiction Frfinition Imagination Imitation Invention Realistic Superior Think
What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat… where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.
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Answer Canned Catch Eaten Metaphor Original Source Suppose Swing Word
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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Being Believe Child Exist Faculties Human Imagination Mature Power
Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer’s first duty is to use language well.
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Best Breed Careless Grammarly Language Morality Stupidity Truth Writer

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