We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother.
URSULA K. LE GUINI think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
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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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The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive.
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I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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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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It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.
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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
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