You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
URSULA K. LE GUINHate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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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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While we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there, we hear their voices… Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
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Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it.
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The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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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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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
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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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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. …But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
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