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Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your mind, to buy safety? Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your mind, to buy safety?
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God. He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: To deny the past is to deny the future. To deny the past is to deny the future.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part. 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 quotes: What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice. What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness. Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: It was the idea of writing with a specific audience in mind or a specific age of reader that scared me off. It was the idea of writing with a specific audience in mind or a specific age of reader that scared me off.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it. Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Fact is one of our finest fictions. Fact is one of our finest fictions.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: A man gives out, dearie. A woman takes in. A man gives out, dearie. A woman takes in.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile. The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: ..he says, but that's wizard's talk, making things seem great by great words. ..he says, but that's wizard's talk, making things seem great by great words.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Freedom is never very safe. Freedom is never very safe.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: A story that has nothing but action and plot is a pretty poor affair; and some great stories have neither. A story that has nothing but action and plot is a pretty poor affair; and some great stories have neither.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: It's a queer business, making oneself blind. It's a queer business, making oneself blind.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Students are intense people, they laugh and cry, they break down and rebuild. Students are intense people, they laugh and cry, they break down and rebuild.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom. Privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: 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. 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 quotes: We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark? We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so. The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn. Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence. At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: His themes were not pride and love at all, though he used the words perpetually; as he used them they meant self-praise and hate. His themes were not pride and love at all, though he used the words perpetually; as he used them they meant self-praise and hate.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught? How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught?
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: He, after all, had no standards of manliness, of virility, to complicate his pride. He, after all, had no standards of manliness, of virility, to complicate his pride.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [ ... ] Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [ ... ]
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art. We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison. Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: That is between me and my shadow. That is between me and my shadow.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: proud men and umbrageous men, casting black shadows. proud men and umbrageous men, casting black shadows.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Hector had no virtue?" "Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one." "We all do," Aeneas remarked. Hector had no virtue?" "Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one." "We all do," Aeneas remarked.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making. Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: All makers must leave room for acts of the spirit. All makers must leave room for acts of the spirit.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.""It might to keep it open. But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord."
"It might to keep it open.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: The novelist's business is lying. The novelist's business is lying.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Manipulated, one manipulates others. Manipulated, one manipulates others.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one. To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: The creative adult is the child who has survived. The creative adult is the child who has survived.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within. People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: You must be Arha, or you must be Tenar. You cannot be both. You must be Arha, or you must be Tenar. You cannot be both.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not. Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly. Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I lied. I lied. I lied. I lied deliberately, knowingly, well. She lied. She is a liar. She is an intellectual too! She is a lie. And a coward, afraid. I lied. I lied. I lied. I lied deliberately, knowingly, well. She lied. She is a liar. She is an intellectual too! She is a lie. And a coward, afraid.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell? Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Most bigots are sincere. Most bigots are sincere.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: I never had a gift but one, to know when the great wheel gives to a touch, to know and act. I never had a gift but one, to know when the great wheel gives to a touch, to know and act.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: As a writer, you are free. As a writer, you are free.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been. You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: What a comfort the past is," Mimen said, "when the future offers none. What a comfort the past is," Mimen said, "when the future offers none.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King. One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see. No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation. What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. 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 Guin quotes: One must work with time and not against it. One must work with time and not against it.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Wealth, status, pride, are their own ruin. To do good, work well, and lie low is the way of the blessing. Wealth, status, pride, are their own ruin. To do good, work well, and lie low is the way of the blessing.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: The imagination is an essential tool of the mind, a fundamental way of thinking, an indispensable means of becoming and remaining human. We The imagination is an essential tool of the mind, a fundamental way of thinking, an indispensable means of becoming and remaining human. We
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality. I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for not making war. My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for not making war.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world. Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: It is a great deal to ask of a kitten, to defend a man against the armies of the dead. It is a great deal to ask of a kitten, to defend a man against the armies of the dead.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: THE DOMESTICATION OF HUNCH THE DOMESTICATION OF HUNCH
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not. Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Facts are no more slid, coherent, round, and real than pearls are. Bot both are sensitive. Facts are no more slid, coherent, round, and real than pearls are. Bot both are sensitive.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: In war everybody is a prisoner. In war everybody is a prisoner.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Sure, it's simple writing for kids ... just as simple as bringing them up. Sure, it's simple writing for kids ... just as simple as bringing them up.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: If you play against your own side you'll lose the whole game. If you play against your own side you'll lose the whole game.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them. Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before. One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them. But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive. 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 quotes: When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life. When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now. I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Self-satisfaction with the inability to remain conscious when faced with printed matter seems misplaced. Self-satisfaction with the inability to remain conscious when faced with printed matter seems misplaced.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living. The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Greed puts out the sun. Greed puts out the sun.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: I think one cannot be left alive among so many deaths without feeling unendurable shame. I think one cannot be left alive among so many deaths without feeling unendurable shame.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: How did you get all this?" "Stole it," said the one-time prime minister of Karhide, How did you get all this?" "Stole it," said the one-time prime minister of Karhide,
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Consistency is a virtue until it gets annoying. Consistency is a virtue until it gets annoying.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Estraven asleep looked a little stupid, like everyone asleep. Estraven asleep looked a little stupid, like everyone asleep.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Infinite are the arguments of mages, Infinite are the arguments of mages,
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: [T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies. [T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: his heart going hard. his heart going hard.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: I didn't know you well at all. Only, when you spoke, I seemed to see clear into you, into the center. I didn't know you well at all. Only, when you spoke, I seemed to see clear into you, into the center.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies ... One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies ...
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: We weren't cruel, we were ignorant, foolish. Children are ignorant and foolish. But they learn. If they are given a chance to learn. We weren't cruel, we were ignorant, foolish. Children are ignorant and foolish. But they learn. If they are given a chance to learn.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Was he leaving home, or going home? Was he leaving home, or going home?
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: His gentleness was uncompromising; because he would not compete for dominance, he was indomitable. His gentleness was uncompromising; because he would not compete for dominance, he was indomitable.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes: Honor can exist anywhere, love can exist anywhere, but justice can exist only among people who found their relationships upon it. Honor can exist anywhere, love can exist anywhere, but justice can exist only among people who found their relationships upon it.

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