When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
URSULA K. LE GUINI had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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A panda walks into a tea room and ordered a salad and ate it. Then it pulled out a pistol, shot the man in the next table dead, and walked out.
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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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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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We read books to find out who we are.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic ‘libertarianism’ of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early.
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Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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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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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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Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud’s terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things.
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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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Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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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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