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.
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.
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The presence of the trees was very strong…The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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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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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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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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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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Hope is a slow business.
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The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, – this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.
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The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
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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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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
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Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
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