Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
URSULA K. LE GUINWe are been taught to be ashamed of not being ‘outgoing’. But a writer’s job is ingoing.
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The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings.
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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge.
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.
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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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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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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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Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
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