The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
URSULA K. LE GUINThe question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
URSULA K. LE GUINTo the lives that haven’t been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.
URSULA K. LE GUINThere’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.
URSULA K. LE GUINTo hear, one must be silent.
URSULA K. LE GUINWhen you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
URSULA K. LE GUINResistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
URSULA K. LE GUINHardly 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.
URSULA K. LE GUINLight 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.
URSULA K. LE GUINThere is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
URSULA K. LE GUINAll knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge.
URSULA K. LE GUINIt is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
URSULA K. LE GUINEither we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
URSULA K. LE GUINTo have a choice at all is to be privileged.
URSULA K. LE GUINWriters know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight.
URSULA K. LE GUINSafety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this:
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