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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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Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I’m going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I’m going to unbuild walls.
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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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.
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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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Capitalism Inescapable King Live Power Right Seem
What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.
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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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Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows.
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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else.
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Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
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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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Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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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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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.
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f we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we’ll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.
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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid.
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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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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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Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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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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