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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin As men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation – you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin 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.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer’s first duty is to use language well.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin To hear, one must be silent.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin 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.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud’s terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin What is life without incompatible realities?
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