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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 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

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

Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders. — Ursula Burns

I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away. — Ursula Andress

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

Heartburn is how I recognize myself. It's how I know I feel like me. - Donny — Sharon Weil

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not. — 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

THE DOMESTICATION OF HUNCH — Ursula K. Le Guin

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? — 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

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

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

In war everybody is a prisoner. — 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

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

There were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day. — Ursula Curtiss

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

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

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

Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking. — D.H. Lawrence

I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20. — Ursula Andress

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

The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts. — Ursula Hegi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process. — Ursula Burns

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

He was born a politician.
No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become. — Kate Atkinson

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

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

True faith has no eyes, no ability to see. Instead, the Father left us with the most precious little grain - a tiny little thing - in a mustard seed. — Ursula Denise Walker

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

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

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

There is the world of difference between failing at something and being a failure - but many people do not differentiate. — Ursula Markham

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn't even begin to solve. — Kate Atkinson

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

Darling? This is Ursula Monkton, — Neil Gaiman

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

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

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

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life. — Ursula Andress

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

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

I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother. — Ursula Burns

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

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

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

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

The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy. — Ursula Burns

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