Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts.
URSULA K. LE GUINFor all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man’s toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.
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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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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people .
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.
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You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
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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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To 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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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
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The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive.
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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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