The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
URSULA K. LE GUINOnly in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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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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Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight.
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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
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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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Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic ‘libertarianism’ of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early.
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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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We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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Hope is a slow business.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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