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So we have this eyesore on the property.
No, it's not the beagle. I can understand why you'd think that, though. — Ursula Vernon

Le Guin's Rule: One person cannot do two fulltime jobs, but two persons can do three fulltime jobs - if they honestly share the work. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Why must there be war?" "Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men. — Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part. — 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

Heaven and earth
begin in the unnamed:
name's the mother
of the ten thousand things. — Ursula K. Le Guin

To go under a river: there's a strange thing to do, a really weird idea. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy. — Ursula Andress

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

And that's how Snuggles the hamster learned that yes, things COULD always get worse. — Ursula Vernon

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living. — Ursula Andress

I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things. — Ursula Andress

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing. — Ursula K. Le Guin

As a man's knowledge grows, and his power increases, the road he takes grows ever narrower, until at last he does only and wholly what he must. — Ursula K. Le Guin

There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It isn't changing around from place to place that keeps you lively. It's getting time on your side. Working with it, not against it. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The strength of Shevek's personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I've been looking only at what's to be done next and forgetting why we're doing it. — Ursula K. Le Guin

To him a thinking man's job was not to deny one reality at the expense of the other, but to include and to connect. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there. — Ursula Nordstrom

Where there's property, there's theft. — Ursula K. Le Guin

At the pit's bottom is no anger. — Ursula K. Le Guin

..he says, but that's wizard's talk, making things seem great by great words. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain. — Ursula K. Le Guin

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It's a queer business, making oneself blind. — Ursula K. Le Guin

By and large books are mankind's best invention. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Besides, when you say you're a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it's kind of irresistible. — Ursula K. Le Guin

She'll die.'
'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The novelist's business is lying. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Then Ged pitied her. She was like a white deer caged, like a white bird wing-clipped, like a silver ring in an old man's finger. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Man's singularity is his divinity. — Ursula K. Le Guin

To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game ... speak the truth and hear the truth. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The story is the way the story is told. Adam's — Ursula K. Le Guin

Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison. — Ursula K. Le Guin

To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The prisoner is the jailer's jailer. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Without war there are no heroes."
"What harm would that be?"
"Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is. — Ursula K. Le Guin

it is strange, exceedingly strange, to know that one's life has been fulfilled. Yet — Ursula K. Le Guin

What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices. — Ursula K. Le Guin

History is not a science, it's an art. — Ursula K. Le Guin

For if it's all the rest of us who are killed by the suicide, it's himself whom the murderer kills; only he has to do is over, and over, and over. — Ursula K. Le Guin

As he came to the bank Ogion, waiting, reached out his hand and clasping the boy's arm whispered to him his true name: Ged. — Ursula K. Le Guin

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it. — Ursula K. Le Guin

When you have nothing to pray for, that's when Luck hears you. If — Ursula K. Le Guin

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. — Ursula K. Le Guin

There's nothing wrong with me ... except acute chronic fear. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The only problem is whether one adds life to one's years or years to one's life. — Ursula Parrott

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. — Ursula K. Le Guin

There's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula found herself dwelling on Hugh's death, his absence more than his death. — Kate Atkinson

If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary. — Ursula Parrott

Success is somebody else's failure. — Ursula K. Le Guin

She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. — Neil Gaiman

It's not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself. — Ursula K. Le Guin

As a man's knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower; until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholely what he must do. — Ursula K. Le Guin

George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Emotion combined with an artist's discipline is the rarest thing in the world. — Ursula Nordstrom

The premise is: everybody's like me and we all think alike.
The corollary is: people who don't think like me don't matter. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Orr's gods were nameless and unenvious, asking neither worship nor obedience. — Ursula K. Le Guin

In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest one to be sure. — Ursula K. Le Guin

There's no way to use power for good. — Ursula K. Le Guin

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere. — 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

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

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

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