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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 earthbegin 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
And that's how Snuggles the hamster learned that yes, things COULD always get worse.
— Ursula Vernon
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
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 answerto 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 carefullyas 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
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
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
Sure, it's simple writing for kids ... just as simple as bringing them up.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
