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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it… By using words well they strengthen their souls.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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
It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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Content Evil Hard Hold Soul Very
My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died.
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Earth Human Planet Run Species Spoil World
Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
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Darkness Death Hand Join Left Life Light Lover Lying Right Together Two
This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars.
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Art Darkness End Must Must Heard Safety Silence Star
But where I can get prickly and combative is, if I’m just called a sci-fi writer. I’m not. I’m a novelist and poet. Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over.
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Call Damm Novelist Over Pigeon Poet Prickly Writer
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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Any Die Forever Given Immortal Live Man Nothing Thing
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
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Down Learn Sit Until
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
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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End Justice Mean never
Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.
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First Get Goes Going Hate Hold Inside Lighter Older Round Stick Until
Success is somebody else’s failure.
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Else Failure Somebody Success
The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
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Plot Story Tell
Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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Another Kind Music Think Way
To hear, one must be silent.
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Hear Must One Silent
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Ask Matter One Only Question Really Yourself

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