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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.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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We are been taught to be ashamed of not being ‘outgoing’. But a writer’s job is ingoing.
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And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope.
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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison.
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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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Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this:
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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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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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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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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart.
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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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