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We are been taught to be ashamed of not being ‘outgoing’. But a writer’s job is ingoing.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Every group we belong to – by gender, sex, race, religion, age – is an in-group, surrounded by an immense out-group, living next door and all over the world, who will be alive as far into the future as humanity has a future. That out-group is called other people. It is for them that we write.
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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
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Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
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The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries.
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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.
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All Before Know Need Place Rare
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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Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison.
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We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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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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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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