The creative adult is the child who has survived.
URSULA K. LE GUINTo claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.
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The presence of the trees was very strong…The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion.
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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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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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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Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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f we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we’ll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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