We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
URSULA K. LE GUINI had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
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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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Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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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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Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit.
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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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You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
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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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We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother.
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