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The habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done. — Ursula K. Le Guin

To deny the past is to deny the future. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man. — Ursula K. Le Guin

A grating sound came from the dragon's throat . . . "You offer me safety! You threaten me! With what?"

"With your name, Yevaud. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness. — Ursula K. Le Guin

And she told me the same thing, she said that when I came back in the winter, she was going to miss missing me ... — Ursula K. Le Guin

There is no kingdom like the forests. — Ursula K. Le Guin

There must be darkness to see the stars. — Ursula K. Le Guin

This writing doesn't affect reality any more than any writing does; that is to say, indirectly, but considerably. — Ursula K. Le Guin

A man gives out, dearie. A woman takes in. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin urges authors to remember why they do what they do. Her argument is that writing is an form of art rather than a commodity. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords. — Ursula K. Le Guin

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The old farfetchers' motto: Opinion ends reception. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone. — Ursula K. Le Guin

There were actually very few men who could face reality when the going got tough. — Ursula K. Le Guin

We strike a medium, and he shivers in his bag, while I swelter in mine, but considering from what distances we have come together, we do well enough. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women. — Ursula K. Le Guin

First sentences are doors to worlds. — Ursula K. Le Guin

You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it. — Ursula K. Le Guin

A library is a focal point, a sacred place to a community; and its sacredness is its accessibility, its publicness. It's everybody's place". — Ursula K. Le Guin

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? — Ursula K. Le Guin

THE DOMESTICATION OF HUNCH — Ursula K. Le Guin

Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I had of course met with incredulity..., but seldom with a will to incredulity. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Facts are no more slid, coherent, round, and real than pearls are. Bot both are sensitive. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin

My enemies must nominate themselves; I have no interest at all in making, finding, or knowing them. — Ursula K. Le Guin

They were without shame and without desire, like the angels. But it is not human to be without shame and without desire. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It is a great deal to ask of a kitten, to defend a man against the armies of the dead. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Go to bed; tired is stupid. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The only emotion I felt was shame. For him, for myself. Again I had trusted, and again I had betrayed and been betrayed. Venne — Ursula K. Le Guin

Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place. — Ursula K. Le Guin

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god? — Ursula K. Le Guin

Like all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you were on. — Ursula K. Le Guin

They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The sleeper turns his back on everyone. — Ursula K. Le Guin

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Grain grows best in shit... — Ursula K. Le Guin

Up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society, and its rules, as he from his. — Ursula K. Le Guin

So many of his problems were of a kind that other people did not understand, that he got used to working them out for himself, in silence. — Ursula K. Le Guin

... what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago, part invention. — Ursula K. Le Guin

What was and what may be lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we have is here, now. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Ronde, one a live village and the other deserted, as dead as Karnak, — Ursula K. Le Guin

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. — Ursula K. Le Guin

How do I know," she said at last, "that you are what you seem to be?"
"You don't," Said he. "I don't know what I seem, to you. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The Encyclopedia Planaria, in forty-four volumes, is not portable, and after all, what is entirely reliable unless it's dead? — Ursula K. Le Guin

Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up the hate with pretty words! — Ursula K. Le Guin

Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing? — Ursula K. Le Guin

Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister. — Ursula K. Le Guin

How would it ever occur to a sane man that he could fly? — Ursula K. Le Guin

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me. — Ursula K. Le Guin

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past; therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future. — Ursula K. Le Guin

'They eat their kind,' he said, 'Like men.' — Ursula K. Le Guin

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I'll die, you'll die; how could we love each other otherwise? The sun's going to burn out, what else keeps it shining? — Ursula K. Le Guin

O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then. — Ursula K. Le Guin

You know there's always prejudice in a revolutionary movement. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them. — Ursula K. Le Guin

When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life. — Ursula K. Le Guin

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. — Ursula K. Le Guin

In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting. — Ursula K. Le Guin

There's no right answer
to the wrong question.
Now what do we do? — Ursula K. Le Guin

I'm a lazy man. With lazy dreams. I need Tai to wake me up, make me vibrate, irritate me. I need my angry woman, my unforgiving friend. — Ursula K. Le Guin

True understanding is the spur of genius — Ursula K. Le Guin

Then I saw ... you see ... I saw that you can't do anything for anybody. We can't save each other. Or ourselves. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. — Ursula K. Le Guin

He gave way to the fear that had come with her, the sense of the breaking of promises, the incoherence of Time. He broke. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I don't know which I should fear more ... death or life. I wish I could be done with fear. — Ursula K. Le Guin

In war everybody is a prisoner. — Ursula K. Le Guin

A conscious mind must be part of the whole, intentionally, and carefully
as the rock is part of the whole unconsciously. — Ursula K. Le Guin

What is more arrogant than honesty? — Ursula K. Le Guin

The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma. — Ursula K. Le Guin

A lot of snow out of one cloud, and it grows thicker. — Ursula K. Le Guin

You can see the old cities still everywhere. The bones and bricks go to dust, but the little pieces of plastic never do - they never adapt either. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else. — Ursula K. Le Guin

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. — Ursula K. Le Guin

But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Sure, it's simple writing for kids ... just as simple as bringing them up. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The room smelled of books, that subtle smell which to some is stuffy and to others intoxicating, and it was silent. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate. — Ursula K. Le Guin

To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Fish and visitors stink after three days. — Ursula K. Le Guin

In this effort to attain security, independence and privacy of course were suspect.... — Ursula K. Le Guin

For to keep dark the mind of the mageborn, that is a dangerous thing. — Ursula K. Le Guin

A warm body sighed in the darkness inside the little bright object balanced elegantly in the orbit of the moon. — Ursula K. Le Guin

You can keep up that crap for years. But it finally catches up with you. And then you realise all you've done is save your shit to drown in. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I don't like making the rest of the world live in my dreams, but I certainly don't want to live in yours. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I walk on the ground and the ground's walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world. Only — Ursula K. Le Guin

If you play against your own side you'll lose the whole game. — Ursula K. Le Guin