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Ursula K. Le Guin161 quotes“I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.”
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All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Listen.’ For being saved is not the point. Music saves nothing. Merciful, uncaring, it denies and breaks down all the shelters, the houses men build for themselves, that they may see the sky.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin 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.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you’re fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin 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.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Hope is a slow business.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I’m going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I’m going to unbuild walls.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.
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