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More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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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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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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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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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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The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.
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That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?
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