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1:Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #KEYS
2:People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons from within. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination, #KEYS
3:Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom...and that freedom must not be compromised. It must be available to all who need it, when they need it, and that's always. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Ignorant power is a bane! ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 2:I write with all my heart ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 3:To hear, one must be silent. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 4:In war everybody is a prisoner. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 5:Age and illness made one a dualist ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 6:Progress means nothing to presence. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 7:Success is somebody else's failure. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 8:What is more arrogant than honesty? ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 9:First sentences are doors to worlds. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 10:Owning is owing, having is hoarding. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 11:Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 12:We broke the world to make it whole. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 13:There is no kingdom like the forests. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 14:There's no way to use power for good. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 15:Truth is a matter of the imagination. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 16:We read books to find out who we are. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 17:Statesmen remember things selectively. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 18:The machine conceals the machinations. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 19:To oppose something is to maintain it. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 20:Where there's property, there's theft. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 21:Not even need and love can defeat fate. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 22:The light is the left hand of darkness. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 23:Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 24:Even a poet cannot get everything right. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 25:Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 26:Paradise is for those who make paradise. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 27:True understanding is the spur of genius ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 28:Belief in the lie is the life of the lie. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 29:Belief is the wound that knowledge heals. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 30:Freedom, Responsibility, Absolute Freedom ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 31:Love is the true condition of human life. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 32:You cannot blame everything on the enemy. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 33:It is useless work that darkens the heart. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 34:If civilization has an opposite, it is war. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 35:If they come prying they can leave curious. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 36:One must work with time and not against it. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 37:Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 38:The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 39:To have a choice at all is to be privileged. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 40:What is life without incompatible realities? ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 41:What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 42:Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 43:Peace, Asking Questions, Questions And Answers ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 44:There are no right answers to wrong questions. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 45:Those who build walls are their own prisoners. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 46:Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell? ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 47:Can true function arise from basic dysfunction? ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 48:In art, & 49:Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 50:Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 51:To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 52:By and large books are mankind's best invention. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 53:The story is not in the plot but in the telling. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 54:They can send death at once, but life is slower. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 55:When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 56:Being Yourself, Matter, Asking Yourself Questions ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 57:The creative adult is the child who has survived. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 58:Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing? ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 59:All makers must leave room for acts of the spirit. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 60:Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 61:In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 62:Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 63:The more defensive a society, the more conformist. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 64:What good is power when you're too wise to use it? ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 65:Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 66:Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 67:The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 68:A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 69:He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 70:Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 71:Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 72:The law of evolution is that the strongest survives. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 73:The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 74:There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 75:It is not human to be without shame and without desire. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 76:Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 77:Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 78:Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 79:Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 80:Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 81:The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 82:The great authors share their souls with us- "literally. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 83:If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 84:The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 85:There's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 86:Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 87:Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 88:No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 89:Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 90:There's nothing wrong with me... except acute chronic fear. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 91:To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 92:We sleep researchers like cats, you know; they sleep a lot! ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 93:What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 94:A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 95:All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 96:She'll die.' & 97:The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 98:To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 99:Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 100:It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 101:One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 102:Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 103:Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 104:The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 105:Interview with Faith L. Justice, www.salon.com. January 23, 2001. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 106:Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 107:I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 108:But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 109:Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 110:Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 111:One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 112:There are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 113:The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 114:Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 115:Interview with Guy Haley, guyhaley.wordpress.com. September 17, 2014. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 116:Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 117:I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 118:All quotesNew Quotes (9)ArtBooksChildrenEyesLyingRealityWritingmore... ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 119:It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 120:But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 121:Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 122:To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 123:Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 124:I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 125:I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 126:It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 127:There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 128:Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 129:Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 130:Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 131:The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 132:Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 133:The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 134:There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 135:Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 136:George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 137:I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 138:I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 139:Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 140:Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 141:What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 142:Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 143:I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 144:I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 145:There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 146:To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 147:The Magician. Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2005. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 148:How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught? ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 149:No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 150:People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 151:Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 152:If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 153:I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 154:It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 155:Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 156:A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 157:The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 158:We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 159:When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 160:A man who saw a miracle would reject his eyes' witness, if those with him saw nothing. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 161:The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 162:But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 163:One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 164:Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 165:To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 166: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, @wisdomtrove 167:Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 168:Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 169:Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 170:The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you? ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 171: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, @wisdomtrove 172: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, @wisdomtrove 173:Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 174:Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 175:Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 176:O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 177:What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 178:A Left-Handed Commencement Address, delivered 22 May 1983, Mills College, Oakland, California ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 179:Chronicles of Earthsea. The Guardian Online Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2004. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 180:It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 181:Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 182:The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 183:When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 184:Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 185:When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 186: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, @wisdomtrove 187:My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 188:Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 189: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, @wisdomtrove 190:You can go home again... so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 191:To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 192:A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 193:Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 194: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, @wisdomtrove 195:Transcript for the Piece Audio version of A Wizard of Earthsea: A Big Read Documentary. www.prx.org. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 196:Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 197:She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 198:The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there . ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 199:Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 200: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, @wisdomtrove 201:When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 202:Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 203:Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 204:Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 205:The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 206:You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 207:Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 208: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, @wisdomtrove 209:To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 210:We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 211: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, @wisdomtrove 212:I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 213: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, @wisdomtrove 214:The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 215:When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 216:A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 217:In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 218:That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 219:This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 220:If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 221:If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 222: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, @wisdomtrove 223:Very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 224:A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 225:The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 226: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, @wisdomtrove 227:The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 228:Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 229:The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 230: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, @wisdomtrove 231:If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 232:I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 233:In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 234:Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 235: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, @wisdomtrove 236: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, @wisdomtrove 237: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, @wisdomtrove 238:The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 239:You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 240: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, @wisdomtrove 241:Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 242: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, @wisdomtrove 243:Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 244: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, @wisdomtrove 245:The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 246:I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 247:Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 248:Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 249: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, @wisdomtrove 250:... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 251:To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 252:You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 253: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, @wisdomtrove 254: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, @wisdomtrove 255:He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 256:I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 257:It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 258:To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 259: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, @wisdomtrove 260: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, @wisdomtrove 261:Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 262:A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 263: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, @wisdomtrove 264:At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 265:The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 266:The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 267:We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 268:All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 269: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, @wisdomtrove 270:The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 271:The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 272:You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 273:So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 274: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, @wisdomtrove 275:I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 276:In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 277:The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 278: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, @wisdomtrove 279:It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 280:Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 281:Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 282: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, @wisdomtrove 283:Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 284:A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 285:Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 286:As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 287:I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 288: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, @wisdomtrove 289:The same old hypocrisy. 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, @wisdomtrove 290:If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ... But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 291:Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 292: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, @wisdomtrove 293:Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 294: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, @wisdomtrove 295:The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 296:When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 297:A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 298:It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 299:The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 300:We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 301:I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after & 302:But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 303:He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 304:No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 305:You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes - the wall, the wall! ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 306:If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 307:Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 308:There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 309:... If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 310:In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 311:See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 312:Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the daily stock market report. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 313:If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 314:I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 315:The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 316:There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 317:The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 318:As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 319:If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 320:No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 321:The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 322:There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 323:It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 324:A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 325:All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 326:Sometimes I not only stand there and take it, I even smile at them and say I'm sorry. When I feel that smile coming onto my face, I wish I could take my face off and stamp on it. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 327:The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 328:Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 329:The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 330:Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same... They can be neither separated, nor mixed. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 331:Love's just one of the ways through, and it can go wrong, and miss. Pain never misses. But therefore we don't have much choice about enduring it! We will, whether we want to or not. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 332:Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 333:To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful, one must compare and contrast it with something worse - not better! ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 334:It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 335:Sleeping people are so remote... . Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 336:While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 337:Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 338:I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 339:And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 340:Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 341:We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 342:A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer's job is to be its medium. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 343:It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 344:She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 345:If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 346:Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 347:If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 348:If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the character talk. Don't censor, don't control. Listen, and write. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 349:In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 350:Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 351:You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said... 'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, & 352:If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 353:I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the stories have to square with my consciousness as a woman and my conscience as a human being. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 354:Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they stared ahead again. I had thought that only beetles had this delusion of Progress. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 355:There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 356:Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that's the real art; it makes the work inexhaustible. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 357:All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people . ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 358:I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 359:Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 360:Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken by the world. They gyre and fall; they see through everything, and are blind. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 361:By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the living word into dead law. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 362:My Real Children starts quietly, then suddenly takes you on two roller-coaster rides at once, swooping dizzily through a double panorama and ending in a sort of super Sophie's Choice. A daring tour de force. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 363:Honestly, orthodoxy concerns me about as much as it concerns your average jackrabbit. I only follow rules that take me where I want to go. If there aren't any rules, I make up my own and follow them strictly. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 364:Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and when we come back, it may be very hard to describe where we have been. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 365:This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 366:When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 367:And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 368:Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 369:He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 370:The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 371:Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 372:I have become very critical of the whole book award system and could preach on that subject for quite a while, but I do know what an award can mean to a writer early in her career. It can give an essential validation. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 373:Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 374:What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we call psychosis is sometimes simply realism. But human beings can't live on realism alone. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 375:I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for - so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house? ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 376:The label YA actually means nothing except that the protagonists, or some of them, are young. Publishers like it because it is a secure marketing niche. But the cost of security is exclusion from literary consideration. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 377:The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 378:All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 379:Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 380:Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life& 381:What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 382:You know, I don't think a lot about why one book connects with its readers and another doesn't. Probably because I don't want to start thinking, "Am I popular?" I spent way too much time thinking about that in high school. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 383:I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . . . Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 384:There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 385:It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 386:I think what's happening is, it's all - fantasy, science fiction, ghosts, trolls, whatever - finally being called, being admitted to be literature. The way it used to be, before the Realists and the bloody Modernists took over. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 387:No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 388:The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly. It is full of barbed wire and the stumps of dead opinions. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 389:You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 390:Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 391:What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair... Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 392:The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 393:We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 394:The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 395:If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 396:The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 397:When we're done with it, we may find—if it's a good novel—that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having meet a new face, crossed a street we've never crossed before. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 398:Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison? ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 399:A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 400:We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 401:Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 402:We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 403:In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 404:If I had to pick a hero, it would be Charles Darwin& 405:My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 406:And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 407:Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 408:To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences and they can just be rich and famous. Their job is to write. Some really don't realize that. And you can't write unless you read. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 409:Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 410:It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 411:All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it's life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond? ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 412:A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 413:After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 414:The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' & 415:To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 416:Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being & 417:What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 418:The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 419:Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control, when the work takes off on its own and flies, farther than they ever planned or imagined, to places they didn't know they knew. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 420:Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 421:Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 422:If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in selling as the writer's primary objective, I am not teaching writing; I'm teaching, or pretending to teach, the production and marketing of a commodity. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 423:We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order that the lie of God might be God's truth, the universe at once began to exist. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 424:All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 425:It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why, it discovers Relativity. When it only shows how, it invents the atom bomb, and then puts its hands over its eye and says, My God what have I done? ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 426:Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the craft can. But a workshop where the trade is the principal focus of interest is not a writing workshop. It is a business class. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 427:Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 428:Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while. And not every planet can do it; it is no common effect, that tangling of the sun's first cool light in the shadow and complexity of innumberable wind-stirred branches. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 429:My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 430:I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went looking for it. My impulse is less questing and more playful. I like trying on ideas and ways of life and religious approaches. I'm just not a good candidate for conversion. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 431:Those who dislike fantasy are very often equally bored or repelled by science. They don't like either hobbits, or quasars; they don't feel at home with them; they don't want complexities, remoteness. If there is any such connection, I'll bet that it is basically an aesthetic one ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 432:I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 433:In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves; it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 434:I know that nobody who hasn't been in battle or under attack can know what war is. But even in terms of being safe at home, it's also true that many Americans who think they know what being at war is, don't. Including, of course, George W. Bush and his people. They don't have a clue. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 435:Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 436:Animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do.We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. [. . .] The animals need only be and do.We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 437:Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation& 438:The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men's eyes. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 439:The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 440:A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being. If he would not be a stick whirled and whelmed in the stream, he must be the stream itself, all of it, from its spring to its sinking in the sea. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 441:I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more experimental writing, more literary writing, riskier writing. It wasn't all imitation Heinlein or Asimov. And of course, women were creeping in, infiltrating. Infesting the premises. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 442:The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 443:As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 444:Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other& 445:From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 446:I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 447:Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself. That's when you begin to listen to the voices from the other side, and to ask questions of failure and the dark. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 448:The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 449:We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born? ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 450:Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 451:But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power... It must follow knowledge, and serve need. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 452:I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day task of painting. What task worth doing isn't worth daily effort? Do you think Michelangelo was having fun the whole time he was on his back painting the Sistine Chapel's ceiling? ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 453:It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self& 454:When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill it. And you have to find how to make that form say what you want to say. But what you find, always& 455:The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 456:There is neither source nor end, for all things are in the Center of Time. As all the stars may be reflected in a round raindrop falling in the night: so too do all the stars reflect the raindrop. There is neither darkness nor death, for all things are, in the Light of the Moment, and their end and their beginning are one. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 457:Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 458:Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 459:Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the craft and after it, is some essential durable core of being, which is what the craft works on, and shows, and sets free. The statue in the stone. How does the artist find that, see it, before it's visible? That is a real question. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 460:What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love [my country], but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 461:Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it is heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 462:I gather that a lot of the "pots" in the great museum in Baghdad, which we allowed to be looted and then gutted, are now for sale to the highest bidder on the art and archeology black market. This is good capitalism, I guess, while a museum, being a public trust and accessible to all, is anticapitalist, pretty damn near socialist in fact. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 463:There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing them, in reading them, in criticizing them. Vive les différences! They're what gives each genre its singular flavor and savor, its particular interest for the reader - and the writer. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 464:I don't believe that a writer & 465:What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible rational, coherent world, is nothing less than everything. . . . . All human knowledge is local. Every life, each human life is local, is arbitrary, the infinitesimal momentary glitter of a reflection. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 466:Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is similarly a waiting room, where you go after life's over and wait for cancer or a stroke. The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 467:Whenever they tell me children want this sort of book and children need this sort of writing, I am going to smile politely and shut my earlids. I am a writer, not a caterer. There are plenty of caterers. But what children most want and need is what we and they don't know they want and don't think they need, and only writers can offer it to them. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 468:It's probably simply a matter of temperament that I never stopped to wonder if I could "match" what I had done, never choked off my writing by competing with myself, or with anybody else for that matter. My ambition was absolutely centered on the work itself, never on what it would bring me, or "who" it would make me. I never cared about that at all. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 469:It's probably simply a matter of temperament that I never stopped to wonder if I could match" what I had done, never choked off my writing by competing with myself, or with anybody else for that matter. My ambition was absolutely centered on the work itself, never on what it would bring me, or "who" it would make me. I never cared about that at all." ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 470:Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 471:Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. All the years and places of his brief broken life came within mind's reach and made a whole again. He knew once more, at last, after this long, bitter, waisted time, who he was and where he was. But where he must go in the years to come, that he could not see; and he feared to see it. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 472:What is a woman's power then?" she asked. "I don't think we know." "When has a woman power because she's a woman? With her children, I suppose. For a while... " "In her house, maybe." She looked around the kitchen. "But the doors are shut," she said, "the doors are locked." "Because you're valuable." "Oh yes. We're precious. So long as we're powerless. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 473:And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 474:As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 475:Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 476:I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 477:Jungians such as Joseph Campbell have generalised such journeys into a set of archetypal events and images. Though they can be useful in criticism, I mistrust them as fatally reductive. “Ah, the Night Sea Voyage!” we cry, feeling that we have understood something important — but we’ve merely recognised it. Until we are actually on that voyage, we have understood nothing. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 478:Reading is performance. The reader& 479:Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing - instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 480:Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 481:In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little... But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 482:Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them, all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars. In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth? ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 483:The menopause is probably the least glamorous topic imaginable; and this is interesting, because it is one of the very few topics to which cling some shreds and remnants of taboo. A serious mention of menopause is usually met with uneasy silence; a sneering reference to it is usually met with relieved sniggers. Both the silence and the sniggering are pretty sure indications of taboo. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 484:Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 485:Growing up during World War II certainly affected my whole view of life, but I hardly know how, it goes so deep. What's hard to explain now is that, though we were never invaded, and bombed only once and ineffectively on the coast of Oregon, everybody in the country was in that war. Everything we did was influenced by it - eating, traveling, dressing, thinking - everything in daily life. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 486:Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 487:When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 488:As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely around among realism, magical realism, science fiction, fantasy of various kinds, historical fiction, young adult fiction, parable, and other subgenres, to the point where much of it is ungenrifiable, all got shoved into the Sci Fi wastebasket or labeled as kiddilit - subliterature. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 489:Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 490:For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living. They are afraid of dragons, because they are afraid of freedom. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 491:Saying that, he was suddenly himself again, despite his lunatic hair and eyes: a man whose personal dignity went so deep as to be nearly invisible... It was more than diginity. Integrity? Wholeness? Like a block of wood not carved. The infinite possibility, the unlimited and unqualified wholeness of being of the uncommitted, the nonacting, the uncarved: the being who, being nothing but himself, is everything. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 492:We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the age. We know a dozen Arthurs now, all of them true. The Shire changed irrevocably even in Bilbo's lifetime. Don Quixote went riding out to Argentina and met Jorge Luis Borges there. Plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 493:Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he has shifty eyes and funny shoes and he won't talk about anything except the injustice of the United States income tax structure toward people with fluctuating income, or how to breed Black Angus cows, or something. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 494:Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors embody and re-create the words of drama. In fiction, a tremendous amount of story and character may be given through the dialogue, but the story-world and its people have to be created by the storyteller. If there's nothing in it but disembodied voices, too much is missing. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 495:The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 496:A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 497:If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're writing. And if this lack of motivation is a constant problem, perhaps writing is not your forte. I mean, what is the problem? If writing bores you, that is pretty fatal. If that is not the case, but you find that it is hard going and it just doesn't flow, well, what did you expect? It is work; art is work. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 498:What good is music? None ... and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and Leaders, music says, & 499:Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else. What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat... where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 500:It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:white-skinned, ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
2:A View of Exmoor, ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
3:are all contingent. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
4:Hate eats the hater ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
5:The sleeper dreamed. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
6:An owl is mostly air. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
7:his heart going hard. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
8:Judgement is poverty. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
9:he saw what was up and ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
10:The king was pregnant. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
11:True voyage is return. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
12:Dreams take short cuts. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
13:Greed puts out the sun. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
14:Jo Walton: Among Others ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
15:Hope is a slow business. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
16:Most bigots are sincere. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
17:We all do harm by being. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
18:Ignorant power is a bane! ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
19:I write with all my heart ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
20:As a writer, you are free. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
21:Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
22:THE DOMESTICATION OF HUNCH ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
23:To be whole is to be part; ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
24:Alone, no one wins freedom. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
25:Endurance may outlast hope. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
26:Freedom is never very safe. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
27:Go to bed; tired is stupid. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
28:Grain grows best in shit... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
29:Take care, Tenar,” he said. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
30:Ultimately you write alone. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
31:Talking about it changed it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
32:To hear, one must be silent. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
33:A Modest Proposal: Vegempathy ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
34:How you play is what you win. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
35:Old Age Is Not for the Young. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
36:Gerçek yolculuk geri dönüştür. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
37:Pregnant women have no ethics. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
38:The admirable is inexplicable. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
39:Though bigots have small ears. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
40:Acı çekmek bir yanlış anlamadır ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
41:In war everybody is a prisoner. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
42:She was the woman in the table. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
43:At the pit's bottom is no anger. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
44:Do what is needful. And no more! ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
45:Gerçek yolculuk geri dönüştür... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
46:Small Beer Press Easthampton, MA ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
47:We shape each other to be human. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
48:Would you walk away from Omelas? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
49:Hold fast to the one noble thing. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
50:That is between me and my shadow. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
51:The novelist's business is lying. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
52:To hear, one must be silent.’ The ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
53:Age and illness made one a dualist ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
54:Man's singularity is his divinity. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
55:Fact is one of our finest fictions. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
56:Light is the left hand of darkness. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
57:Progress means nothing to presence. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
58:Success is somebody else's failure. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
59:Was he leaving home, or going home? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
60:What is more arrogant than honesty? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
61:What to make of a diminished thing? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
62:First sentences are doors to worlds. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
63:Geraldine Brooks: People of the Book ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
64:Go to bed; tired is stupid. Tomorrow ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
65:Infinite are the arguments of mages, ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
66:Infinite are the arguments of mages. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
67:Manipulated, one manipulates others. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
68:Owning is owing, having is hoarding. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
69:The prisoner is the jailer's jailer. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
70:Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
71:We broke the world to make it whole. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
72:...you play the instrument you have. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
73:In absence, presence. In death, life. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
74:There is no kingdom like the forests. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
75:There's no way to use power for good. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
76:Truth is a matter of the imagination. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
77:We read books to find out who we are. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
78:History is not a science, it's an art. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
79:new worlds were born of their talking. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
80:Statesmen remember things selectively. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
81:The light is the left hand of darkness ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
82:The machine conceals the machinations. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
83:To oppose something is to maintain it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
84:We broke the world to make it whole... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
85:Where there's property, there's theft. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
86:With eye and hand and breath and will. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
87:Not even need and love can defeat fate. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
88:Peace above all, until the War comes... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
89:The light is the left hand of darkness. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
90:The sleeper turns his back on everyone. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
91:The story is the way the story is told. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
92:To deny the past is to deny the future. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
93:Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
94:Even a poet cannot get everything right. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
95:Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
96:Justice, mercy, does Mars care for them? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
97:Orr slept. He dreamed. There was no rub. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
98:Paradise is for those who make Paradise. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
99:Paradise is for those who make paradise. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
100:There must be darkness to see the stars. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
101:the truth is a matter of the imagination ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
102:To light a candle is to cast a shadow... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
103:True understanding is the spur of genius ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
104:When all ways are lost the way is clear. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
105:Belief in the lie is the life of the lie. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
106:Belief is the wound that knowledge heals. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
107:cats have no guilt and very little shame. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
108:Fish and visitors stink after three days. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
109:In art, 'good enough' is not good enough. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
110:Love is the true condition of human life. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
111:Not even need and love can defeat fate... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
112:You cannot blame everything on the enemy. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
113:A man gives out, dearie. A woman takes in. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
114:He seemed not to know the uses of silence. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
115:It is useless work that darkens the heart. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
116:No-mind is an evil place for mind to stay. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
117:a book is a box of words until you open it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
118:If civilization has an opposite, it is war. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
119:If they come prying they can leave curious. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
120:İstediğin kadar bir taşı sula, taş büyümez. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
121:One must work with time and not against it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
122:The habit of silence is lead on the tongue. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
123:There is no break in the wholeness of time. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
124:The unexpected is what makes life possible. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
125:'They eat their kind,' he said, 'Like men.' ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
126:To light a candle is to cast a shadow . . . ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
127:To oppose something is to maintain it. They ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
128:Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
129:Encender una vela es proyectar una sombra... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
130:Hate's not functional; why are we taught it? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
131:It is our suffering that brings us together. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
132:It's a queer business, making oneself blind. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
133:The moths look like souls in the underworld, ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
134:The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
135:To have a choice at all is to be privileged. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
136:What is life without incompatible realities? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
137:George MacDonald: The Princess and the Goblin ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
138:I did not live my life as history is written. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
139:my books won't take me far
into this place ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
140:None of this is spare time. I can’t spare it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
141:Not all roads that lead down lead up as well. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
142:There are no right answers to wrong questions ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
143:To be God you have to know what you’re doing. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
144:What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
145:Where does your soul go when you die in Hell? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
146:Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
147:Consistency is a virtue until it gets annoying ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
148:it doesn’t take a thousand men to open a door, ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
149:One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
150:There are no right answers to wrong questions. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
151:The story is the way the story is told. Adam’s ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
152:Those who build walls are their own prisoners. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
153:Wasn’t it immoral to do work you didn’t enjoy? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
154:Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
155:Can true function arise from basic dysfunction? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
156:Consistency is a virtue until it gets annoying. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
157:I always grow poetic when I am lying to myself. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
158:I think we all have archipelagoes in our minds. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
159:Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
160:Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
161:The Owl thinks slowly, but the Owl thinks long. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
162:To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
163:To die is to lose the self and rejoin the rest. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
164:While we read a novel, we are insane - bonkers. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
165:As for ideology, the Hell with it.
All of it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
166:By and large books are mankind's best invention. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
167:Her şey konuşur; duymak istiyorsan, sessiz ol... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
168:She heard Ged speak. He said, “In dying is life. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
169:The story is not in the plot but in the telling. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
170:They can send death at once, but life is slower. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
171:We're prisoners, so freedom is a thing we study. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
172:When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
173:and none could cry Murder, but only Justice done. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
174:Dünya hep yenidir, kökleri ne kadar eski de olsa. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
175:Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
176:The creative adult is the child who has survived. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
177:The politics of the flesh are the roots of power. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
178:To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
179:Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
180:All makers must leave room for acts of the spirit. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
181:Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
182:Injustice makes the rules and courage breaks them. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
183:In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
184:Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
185:The more defensive a society, the more conformist. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
186:They can send death at once, but life is slower... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
187:What good is power when you're too wise to use it? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
188:Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
189:Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
190:I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
191:Stealthily the stars slid forward into nothingness. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
192:The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
193:The old farfetchers' motto: Opinion ends reception. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
194:They let us be, here, in the cage of our ignorance. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
195:Akıllıya soru gerekmez; aptal ise boşuna sorar." -38 ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
196:A meaningless question has only meaningless answers. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
197:A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
198:He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
199:If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
200:Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
201:Meaning in art isn’t the same as meaning in science. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
202:Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
203:proud men and umbrageous men, casting black shadows. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
204:Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
205:The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
206:The law of evolution is that the strongest survives. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
207:To be whole is to be part;
true voyage is return. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
208:Where, then, is Truth?” declaimed Bedap, and yawned. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
209:Which of us saved the other from the Labyrinth, Ged? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
210:A lot of snow out of one cloud, and it grows thicker. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
211:Fantasy as an assembly-line commodity leaves me cold. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
212:I respect commas far more than I respect congressmen. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
213:Kings are quick to punish, it relieves their anxiety. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
214:Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
215:The author is not impartial. Dystopia is not tragedy. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
216:There is no death for an otter, only life to the end. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
217:The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
218:The unexpected is what makes life possible,” he said. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
219:You go to the Place of the Lie to find out the truth? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
220:Are we so feeble we can’t withstand a little exposure? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
221:It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
222:Power inheres in a center. You're going to the center. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
223:Solitude was his fate; he was trapped in his heredity. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
224:There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
225:The unconscious mind is coextensive with the universe. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
226:For magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
227:It is not human to be without shame and without desire. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
228:Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
229:patience with him either, always at him to hurry up and ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
230:Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
231:Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
232:Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
233:She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
234:Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
235:You put another lock on the door and call it democracy. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
236:A fear of using the imagination is very deep in America. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
237:A psychopathy on Anarres was rational behavior on Urras. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
238:How would it ever occur to a sane man that he could fly? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
239:I come with empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
240:Positive thinking founded on denial may not be so great. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
241:Story is our only boat for sailing on the river of time. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
242:The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
243:The great authors share their souls with us- "literally. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
244:The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
245:The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
246:But as we did without clergy, let us do without soldiers. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
247:Cured?” Goss said. “Would you cure a singer of his voice? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
248:If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
249:No, I don't understand him, but he is worth listening to. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
250:The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
251:The way that can be gone is not the eternal Way.. . . His ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
252:Varlığın pınarları, hayattan daha derindir, ölümden de... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
253:You always have to defend the imagination against idiots. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
254:All of us that read a lot, we’re partly book-manufactured. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
255:Bütün küçük şeyler anlamlıydı, yalnızca bütünü anlamsızdı. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
256:Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
257:I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
258:People need God the way a three-year-old needs a chainsaw. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
259:There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
260:There's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
261:The Wild Winds of Possibility: Vonda McIntyre’s Dreamsnake ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
262:Words are the wings both intellect and imagination fly on. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
263:Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
264:Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
265:No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
266:Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
267:She'll die.'
'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
268:To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
269:We sleep researchers like cats, you know; they sleep a lot! ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
270:What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
271:You must be Arha, or you must be Tenar. You cannot be both. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
272:A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
273:Erkeğin istediği özgürlüktür , kadının istediği mülkiyyettir ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
274:He was all alone, and nothing seemed to be real in solitude. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
275:if I wanted to be the center of the universe I’d have a dog. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
276:I prefer to save talking till I know what I’m talking about. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
277:The daily hummingbird assaults existence with improbability. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
278:The offer of a generous spirit is not one to refuse lightly. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
279:The poet Roethke said, “I learn by going where I have to go. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
280:To see a candle’s light, one must take it into a dark place. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
281:All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
282:Estraven asleep looked a little stupid, like everyone asleep. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
283:I could forget everything I'd lost, because I'd never had it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
284:If you play against your own side you’ll lose the whole game. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
285:It’s dangerous to confuse self-expression with communication. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
286:Konserler: bir vahiydi sanki, coşkudan gelen bir şaşkınlıktı. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
287:Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
288:Old age isn’t a state of mind. It’s an existential situation. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
289:Opinion all too often leaves no room for anything but itself. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
290:The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
291:The really terrible thing about being young is the triviality ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
292:The writing of fiction is endlessly surprising to the writer. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
293:To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
294:We don’t count relatives much; we are all relatives, you see. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
295:What is hard is to keep alive on a world you don't belong to. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
296:Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
297:He was very weary; the day had been long, and full of dragons. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
298:Homer lets us each make our own Helen; and so she is immortal. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
299:Our finest method of organized forgetting is called discovery. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
300:The constrained body knows and values the freedom of the mind. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
301:Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
302:You know there’s always prejudice in a revolutionary movement. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
303:... anlatılacak hikaye ne kadar çoksa hakikat de o kadar çoktu. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
304:A writer's moral duty is to use language thoughtfully and well. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
305:But you're so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
306:Gerçek kardeşlik paylaşılan acıda başlıyor.
│ Mülksüzler ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
307:He was born to be alone, a damned cold intellectual, an egoist. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
308:Housekeeping, the art of the infinite, is no game for amateurs. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
309:It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
310:One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
311:Only shadow can fight shadow.Only darkness can defeat the dark. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
312:You cannot buy the revolution... you can only BE the revolution ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
313:Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
314:If your strength is only the other’s weakness, you live in fear, ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
315:Only shadow can fight shadow.Only darkness can defeath the dark. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
316:Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
317:Socrates said, “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
318:A writer who wants to write good stuff needs to read great stuff. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
319:Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
320:Lovecraft dangles like a rabbit from the jaws of his unconscious. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
321:The world is always new,” said Coro Mena, “however old its roots. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
322:The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
323:When you have nothing to pray for, that’s when Luck hears you. If ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
324:Despite what some adults seem to think, teenagers are fully human. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
325:Farklı güneşlerin ışıkları farklıdır, ama tek bir karanlık vardır. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
326:For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
327:I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
328:I don’t know if it’s right to count people like you count numbers. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
329:If I’m pushed, I will push back. And I’ve been pushed quite a lot. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
330:Of course it happened. An effective dream is a reality, Dr. Haber. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
331:The path never reached it, though it always seemed to be about to. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
332:To keep dark the mind of the mage born, that is a dangerous thing. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
333:What is true is sacred. What has been suffered. What is beautiful. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
334:Which is better off, a lizard basking in the sun or a philosopher? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
335:But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
336:Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
337:Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
338:...I, like Borges, think of heaven as something very like a library ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
339:One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
340:The margin between collusion and respect can be narrow,” Tong said. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
341:there are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
342:They were my age, but we’d reached our age by different roads. What ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
343:Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
344:Goodbye, goodbye. Fish and visitors stink after three days. Goodbye! ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
345:I have this, this gift, I know that; and I know my obligation to it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
346:It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
347:It's not death that allows us to understand one another, but poetry. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
348:Não sou servo de ninguém. Um homem deve projetar a própria sombra... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
349:Oh Lavinia, Lavinia, you are worth ten Camillas. And I never saw it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
350:Praise God from whom all blessings flow, including good-natured men. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
351:Ronde, one a live village and the other deserted, as dead as Karnak, ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
352:...talk is an art and a pleasure, not a matter of mere use and need. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
353:The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
354:Actually, I don’t exactly have expectations. I have hopes, and fears. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
355:For to keep dark the mind of the mageborn, that is a dangerous thing. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
356:Hate eats the hater,” she quoted from a familiar text of the Telling. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
357:He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
358:Now whitish strips of light stretched like slanting phantasmal sails, ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
359:One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
360:Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
361:I bid your voice be dumb until the day you find a word worth speaking. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
362:I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
363:I’d rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer, ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
364:One of our finest methods of organized forgetting is called discovery. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
365:Sure, it's simple writing for kids…just as simple as bringing them up. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
366:What a comfort the past is," Mimen said, "when the future offers none. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
367:But is it only bigots, then, who are allowed to go out into the cosmos? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
368:But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
369:It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
370:the longer he lived on Urras, the less real it became to him. It seemed ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
371:the sure, quick, and lasting way to make people into a nation: war. His ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
372:We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
373:What matters most about a word is that is says what we need a word for. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
374:But by God sometimes you have to be able to think about the unthinkable! ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
375:But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
376:He will die of it.” “That he will: what does a man die of but his death? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
377:Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
378:No sirve de nada tener una respuesta cuando la pregunta está equivocada. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
379:Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
380:[T]he thought was meaningless, an attempt to quantify direct experience. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
381:To go under a river: there’s a strange thing to do, a really weird idea. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
382:To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
383:And in poetry, beauty is no ornament; it is the meaning. It is the truth. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
384:Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
385:I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
386:I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
387:In trouble and from darkness you come, Ged, yet your coming is joy to me. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
388:It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
389:Kardeş bile rahatlatamaz insanı kötü saatte, karanlıkta, duvarın dibinde. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
390:On top of pique, umbrage, and ennui. Oh, the French diseases of the soul. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
391:Speech is sharing—a cooperative art. You’re not sharing, merely egoizing. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
392:The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
393:To break a rule you have to know the rule. A blunder is not a revolution. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
394:I had believed that justice could exist in a society founded on injustice. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
395:It doesn’t make any difference if his end is good; means are all we’ve got ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
396:(some Frenchman said that the cat is the soul of the house, and we agree). ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
397:Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
398:There is a certain bleakness in finding hope where one expected certainty. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
399:There is neither source nor end, for all things are in the Center of Time. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
400:There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
401:...There's no right answer
to the wrong question.
Now what do we do? ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
402:- Vreau să stau cu tine, zise ea.
- Vreau să stau cu tine, o îngână el. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
403:Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
404:Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
405:I use your love as a man burns a candle, burns it away, to light his steps. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
406:The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
407:Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [...] ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
408:Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
409:Bright fame, bright glory will crown Lavinia. But she brings her people war. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
410:Everything dreams. The play of form, of being, is the dreaming of substance. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
411:Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
412:My dogs have barked at a beggar tonight and he proves a prince of starlight. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
413:The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
414:There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
415:We can't restructure our society without restructuring the English language. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
416:Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
417:George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
418:..he says, but that's wizard's talk, making things seem great by great words. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
419:I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
420:It’s queer that daylight’s not enough. We need the shadows, in order to walk. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
421:I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
422:Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
423:Orr’s gods were nameless and unenvious, asking neither worship nor obedience. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
424:put it this way: fiction—writing it, reading it—is an act of the imagination. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
425:spare time is the time not spent at your job or at otherwise keeping yourself ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
426:Students are intense people, they laugh and cry, they break down and rebuild. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
427:They preserved autonomy of conscience even at the cost of becoming eccentric. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
428:What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
429:Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
430:He had intended to add, "Give me a couple of hours to get clear," but did not. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
431:If you write science fiction you can spell things the way you like, sometimes. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
432:She’s pious.” By that word I meant responsible, faithful to duty, open to awe. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
433:What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
434:When at last I learned forgetting, I learned it very quickly and all too well. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
435:Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
436:Art isn’t explanation. Art is what an artist does, not what an artist explains. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
437:But he had not brought anything. His hands were empty, as they had always been. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
438:I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
439:I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
440:I had of course met with incredulity..., but seldom with a will to incredulity. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
441:The first thing I can remember clearly is writing the way into the secret room. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
442:There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
443:...the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
444:To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
445:You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
446:Can women operate as women in a male institution without becoming imitation men? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
447:For the kindest of them was as far out of touch, as unreachable, as the crudest. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
448:Is it any wonder that no truly respectable society has ever trusted its artists? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
449:... there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
450:Bana görülmeye değer bir şey göstermemi söylemiştin. Ben de sana, seni gösterdim. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
451:How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
452:Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
453:I have one lifetime, and I will not spend it for greed and profiteering and lies. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
454:No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
455:Odo said it all her life. 'Only peace brings peace, only just acts bring justice! ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
456:One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
457:paralyzing humiliation was a chemical sequel to getting drunk, like the headache. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
458:People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
459:There were actually very few men who could face reality when the going got tough. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
460:Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
461:Be courageous and try to write in a way that scares you a little. Ursula K Le Guin ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
462:If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
463:I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
464:It was a cold that got into the bone, into the marrow, and would not be dislodged. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
465:No matter how humble the spirit it’s offered in, a sermon is an act of aggression. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
466:Orr’s gods were nameless and unenvious, asking neither worship nor obedience. “Yet ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
467:The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
468:What they feared was what they didn't know, what they clung to was what they knew. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
469:Why, why is a girl brought up at home to be a woman in exile the rest of her life? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
470:Good Lord, you’re funny, too! Is there anything you aren’t?” “A salesman,” he said. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
471:He, after all, had no standards of manliness, of virility, to complicate his pride. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
472:How did you get all this?” “Stole it,” said the one-time prime minister of Karhide, ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
473:If we hide, Therru, we feed him. We will eat. And we will starve him. Come with me. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
474:it is strange, exceedingly strange, to know that one’s life has been fulfilled. Yet ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
475:It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
476:I've been looking only at what's to be done next and forgetting why we're doing it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
477:Life is the most incredible mess, Heather thought. You never can guess what's next. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
478:My advice to young writers is, if you can’t marry money, at least don’t marry envy. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
479:Pois eu tinha me esquecido de tanta luz que há no mundo, até você devolvê-la a mim. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
480:People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
481:Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
482:she sipped her coffee and brandy, which would have grown hair on a Chihuahua. “There ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
483:So honest conversation about concerning geezerhood takes place mostly among geezers. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
484:To be reborn one must die, Tenar. It is not so hard as it looks from the other side. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
485:You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
486:A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
487:Bir hırsız yaratmak için bir sahip yaratın; suç yaratmak istiyorsanız, yasalar koyun. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
488:[...]falcon-winged, falcon-mad, like an unfalling arrow, like an unforgotten thought. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
489:Heathen" is merely a word for somebody who knows a different sacredness than you know ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
490:He thought, I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
491:I tried to speak insipidly, yet everything I said seemed to take on a double meaning. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
492:Los buenos terminan triunfando. ¿O quizá los triunfadores terminan siendo los buenos? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
493:She took his arm. He stopped short, as if her touch had electrocuted him on the spot. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
494:The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
495:This is morally problematic when personal decision is confused with personal opinion. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
496:We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
497:When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
498:A man who saw a miracle would reject his eyes' witness, if those with him saw nothing. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
499:A poem of the right shape will hold a thousand truths. But it doesn’t say any of them. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
500:But belief is the wound that knowledge heals, and death begins the Telling of our life ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
501:I came to the center of the maze following him. Now I must find my way back out alone. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
502:In this effort to attain security, independence and privacy of course were suspect.... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
503:It is a great deal to ask of a kitten, to defend a man against the armies of the dead. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
504:One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience. Back ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
505:The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
506:There's one way to make a baby. If you know another, you can do it with somebody else! ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
507:They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
508:Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing, if not carcinogenic. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
509:But I'm not going to stand up on a gravestone and look down on life and say, 'O lovely! ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
510:But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
511:One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
512:Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
513:To die is to lose the self and rejoin the rest. He had kept himself, and lost the rest. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
514:To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
515: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, #NFDB
516:What you wrote above the nightingale is so interesting, Mr. Keats, please tell us more. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
517:You have not thought things through,” he said. By his standards it was a brutal insult. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
518:Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
519:I think one cannot be left alive among so many deaths without feeling unendurable shame. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
520:Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
521:Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
522:The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
523:All Galileo said, all Darwin said, was, “It doesn’t have to be the way we thought it was. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
524:A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
525:Bir kabusta yaşıyorum, diye geçirdi içinden, arada bir uykumda ayılabildiğim bir kabusta. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
526:He took pleasure in her inconsequential talk just as he did in the sunshine and the snow. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
527:Our souls are old,
often used before.
The knife outlasts
the hand that holds it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
528:The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means. Orr ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
529:The trouble is, women have to be absolutely first class to get where third-class men get. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
530: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, #NFDB
531:Facts are no more slid, coherent, round, and real than pearls are. Bot both are sensitive. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
532:In innocence there is no strength against evil [...] but there is strength in it for good. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
533:[T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
534:Why must there be war?" "Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
535: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, #NFDB
536:Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
537:If piano is the opposite of forte, graceful chitchat with strangers is definitely my piano. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
538: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, #NFDB
539:To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game...speak the truth and hear the truth. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
540:Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
541:Don’t WORry if OTHers disaGREE DON’T WORry if OTHers DISagree Don’t WORry if OTHers DISaGREE ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
542:I don’t know which I should fear more . . . death or life. I wish I could be done with fear. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
543:It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
544:Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
545:Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
546:O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
547:The guesswork of a wizard is close to knowledge, though he may not know what it is he knows. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
548:The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
549:What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
550:Where man goes, trees die; or, to paraphrase Tacitus, we make a desert and call it progress. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
551:Between a man and a woman there is what they want there to be between them... each, and both. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
552:Heaven and earth
begin in the unnamed:
name’s the mother
of the ten thousand things. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
553:It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
554:Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
555:Rid yourself from the idea of earning, the idea of deserving , and you will be able to think. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
556:The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
557:The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
558:But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord."
"It might to keep it open. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
559:He had made follow him. He had called her by her name, and she had come crouching to his hand. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
560:When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
561:Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
562:Even from the brother there is no comfort in the bad hour, in the dark at the foot of the wall. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
563:Fortune-telling and love-potions are not of much account, but old women are worth listening to. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
564:Imagination is not a means of making money. It has no place in the vocabulary of profit-making. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
565:No wizardry would serve him now, but only his own flesh, his life itself, against the unliving. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
566:One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies, given time; plenty of time; ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
567:Our border now is no line between two hills, but the line our planet makes in circling the Sun. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
568:When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
569: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, #NFDB
570:My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
571:Of all the dark, obstructive, enigmatic souls I had met in this bleak city, his was the darkest. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
572:Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
573:Se puteau da jos foi după foi de pe o ceapă și totuși să nu apară nimic altceva decât tot ceapă. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
574:There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
575:But when people say, did you always want to be a writer? I have to say no! I always was a writer. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
576:Fatos não são mais sólidos, coerentes, perfeitos e reais do que pérolas. Mas ambos são sensíveis. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
577:I know perfectly well he's a god, too. But what I think is he'll be much godlier after he's dead. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
578:I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
579:You can go home again...so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
580:But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
581:Carol Emshwiller: Ledoyt First published in 1997, revised in 2002, and revised again for this book ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
582:Dessutom tar jag hellre emot dåliga nyheter från en ärlig man än lögner från en smickrare (s. 72). ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
583:Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
584:His gentleness was uncompromising; because he would not compete for dominance, he was indomitable. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
585: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, #NFDB
586:How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
587:I have given my love to what is worthy of love. Is that not the kingdom and the unperishing spring? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
588:Justice is in the hands of the gods, an old poet wrote, mortal hands hold only mercy and the sword. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
589:My enemies must nominate themselves; I have no interest at all in making, finding, or knowing them. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
590: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, #NFDB
591:To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
592:A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
593:Can you walk the road your dream goes?
Sometimes. Sometimes I am afraid to.
Who is not.
... ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
594:Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
595:I hate complaining to strangers—you can only complain satisfactorily to people you know really well— ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
596: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, #NFDB
597:The book is still filtering down through my emotional Melitta and I will have further reports later, ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
598:The traitor, the self; the self that cries I want to live; let the world burn so long as I can live! ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
599:This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
600:To deny the past is to deny the future. A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
601:We are all dead, and we spoiled the world before we died. There is nothing left. Nothing but dreams. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
602:Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
603: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, #NFDB
604:I don't know. 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, #NFDB
605:Lloró por los años que había perdido esclavizada a un mal inútil. Lloraba de dolor, porque era libre. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
606:She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
607:She was so elaborately and ostentatiously a female body that she seemed scarcely to be a human being. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
608:So the unwanting soul
sees what’s hidden,
and the ever-wanting soul
sees only what it wants. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
609:The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there . ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
610:To nie broń ani kobieta stwarza mężczyznę, nawet nie magia czy moc. Jedynie on sam może tego dokonać. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
611:We’ve outgrown the kind of barbarism that used to bring war into the heart of the high civilizations! ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
612:Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
613: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, #NFDB
614:When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
615:I hate complaining to strangers -- you can only complain satisfactorily to people you know really well. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
616:I thought, shivering, that there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
617:Shevek, meeting her eyes, knew that he had committed an unforgivable fault in forgetting her and, . . . ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
618:Smiles, bells, parades, horses, bleh. If so, please add an orgy. If an orgy would help, don't hesitate. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
619:Um amor profundo entre duas pessoas envolve, afinal, o poder e a oportunidade de causar mágoa profunda. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
620:Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
621:You see, I don’t write the way I was trained to write at the conservatory. I write dysfunctional music. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
622:Ai taught me a Terran game played on squares with little stones, called go, an excellent difficult game. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
623:Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
624:I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I write. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
625:La vida es posible sólo a causa de esa permanente e intolerable incertidumbre: no conocer lo que vendrá. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
626:Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
627:Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
628:Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
629:Self-satisfaction with the inability to remain conscious when faced with printed matter seems misplaced. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
630:The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
631:'The fact is,' I said, 'that you're unable, or unwilling, to believe in the fact that I believe in you.' ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
632:Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
633:When there’s no social pressure behind it, respectful behavior becomes a decision, an individual choice. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
634:which seemed best to us.” And they enjoyed it so much they collected the stories into a Book of Fantasy, ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
635:You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
636:Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
637: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, #NFDB
638:Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
639:The quality and virtue of a slave is invisibility. The powerless need to be invisible even to themselves. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
640: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, #NFDB
641: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, #NFDB
642:To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
643:To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
644: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, #NFDB
645:We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
646:Words are my matter—my stuff. Words are my skein of yarn, my lump of wet clay, my block of uncarved wood. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
647:A story that has nothing but action and plot is a pretty poor affair; and some great stories have neither. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
648:Here, the government can check not only act but thought. Surely no men should have such power over others. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
649:I don’t believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution. I accept it. It isn’t a matter of faith, but of evidence. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
650:If I’m ninety and believe I’m forty-five, I’m headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
651: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, #NFDB
652: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, #NFDB
653:Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
654:Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
655:The people of Winter, who always live in the Year One, feel that progress is less important than presence. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
656:A única coisa que torna a vida possível é a incerteza permanente e intolerável: não saber o que vem depois. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
657:Bir hırsız yaratmak için, bir sahip yaratın; suç yaratmak istiyorsanız, yasalar koyun.' ToplumsalOrganizma. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
658:He thought he had learned pain, but he would learn it again and again, all his life, and forget none of it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
659:His eyes saved him. What they insisted on seeing and reporting to him took him out of the autism of terror. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
660:I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
661:If you believe that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
662: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, #NFDB
663: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, #NFDB
664:Söyle bakalım,' dedi en sonunda, 'Roke'ten ayrılmaya korkuyor musun? Yoksa buradan ayrılmaya istekli misin? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
665:Tezyeme," he said, which meant something on the order of "it is happening the way it is supposed to happen. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
666:The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
667:The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
668:When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
669:A key is a little thing next to the door that it opens. If you lose the key, the door may never be unlocked. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
670:A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
671:Do you know how to read?'
'No. It is one of the black arts.'
He nodded. 'But a useful one,' he said. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
672:If you believe that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
673:In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
674:I stood benumbed. The man was like an electric shock--nothing to hold on to and you don't know what hit you. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
675:... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
676:Sleep gets some really good PR from poets, who are used to talking clearly about things we don’t understand. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
677:That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
678:There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal. There are two kinds of time,
local and historical. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
679:[T]he status of women in a society is a pretty reliable index of the degree of civilization of that society. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
680:The usage the creator spirit gives its vessels is rough, it wears them out, discards them, gets a new model. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
681:This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
682:Where, then, is Truth?” declaimed Bedap, and yawned. “In the hill one happens to be sitting on,” said Tirin. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
683:É bom ter um objetivo nas jornadas que empreendemos; mas, no fim das contas, o que importa é a jornada em si. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
684:I do not know what makes a man a traitor. No man considers himself a traitor: this makes it hard to find out. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
685:If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
686:If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of those two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
687:If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
688:Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
689: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, #NFDB
690:KEEP READING books and seeing movies where nobody can fucking say anything except fuck, unless they say shit. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
691:Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. When ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
692:Very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
693:A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
694:A voice in the darkness said, ‘You have come too far.’ Arren answered it, saying, ‘Only too far is far enough. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
695:He would not have fought for less than the truth, but it was the fighting he had loved, better than the truth. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
696:Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
697:It wasn't Juju this time, it might be that bigdome Gosse, or any of them; no difference; they all bleated baa. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
698:Lendas sobre previsões são comuns em toda a Família Humana. Deuses falam, espíritos falam, computadores falam. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
699:—Que nuestros enemigos mueran sin hijos —dijo el angya gravemente, alzando la copa, que había vuelto a llenar. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
700:some men who live hard and in good health can’t believe sickness or weakness is anything but laziness, a sham. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
701:A warm body sighed in the darkness inside the little bright object balanced elegantly in the orbit of the moon. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
702:I asked if these two psychopaths could not be cured. “Cured?” Goss said. “Would you cure a singer of his voice? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
703:Let age be age. Let your old relative or old friend be who they are. Denial serves nothing, no one, no purpose. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
704:There were people who swore as an art form—performing a dazzling juncture of the inordinate and the unexpected. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
705:This principle, getting it out of place, off-limits, the basic principle of swearing, I understand and approve. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
706:Where, then, is Truth?" declaimed Bedap, and yawned.
"In the hill one happens to be sitting on," said Tirin. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
707:If women had power what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
708:In America the imagination is generally looked on as something that might be useful when the TV is out of order. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
709: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, #NFDB
710: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, #NFDB
711:Pravic was not a good swearing language. It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
712:Bir insanın yeniden doğabilmesi için, ölmesi gerekir Tenar. O taraftan görüldüğü kadar zor bir şey değil bu." Ged ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
713:Boris Pasternak said that poetry makes itself from the relationship between the sounds and the meanings of words. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
714:But you cannot charm the foam calling it sukien; you must use its own true name in the Old Speech, which is essa. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
715:Dragons think we are amusing. But they remember Erreth-Akbe. They speak of him as if he were a dragon, not a man. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
716:I write science fiction because that is what publishers call my books. Left to myself, I should call them novels. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
717:The discovery brings him victory, the kind of victory that isn’t the end of a battle but the beginning of a life. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
718:The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
719:They praised his modesty and did not listen to him, for listening is a rare gift, and men will have their heroes. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
720:They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
721:This writing doesn't affect reality any more than any writing does; that is to say, indirectly, but considerably. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
722:…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, #NFDB
723: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, #NFDB
724:Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry."
"Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are kind. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
725:Shevek" dedi. Yabancı biriyle konuşmaya başlarken tutunabileceği bir dal uzatmak için adını söylemek gelenektendi. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
726:Världen är väldig och förunderlig,..., men den är inte väldigare eller mer förunderlig än vårt medvetande. (s. 65) ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
727:Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
728:Writing a sentence that expresses what you want to say isn’t any easier than plumbing or fiddling. It takes craft. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
729:En yalnız deneyim olan acı, sempati ve sevgiyi doğurur; benlik ve öteki arasındaki köprüyü, birleşmenin araçlarını. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
730: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, #NFDB
731:I named you once, I think," he said, and then strode to his house and entered, bearing the bird still on his wrist. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
732:Negare il passato significa negare il futuro. Un uomo non costruisce il proprio destino. Lo accetta o lo contrasta. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
733:The child stared at her or at nothing, trying to breathe, and trying again to breathe, and trying again to breathe. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
734:The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
735:The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
736: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, #NFDB
737: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, #NFDB
738: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, #NFDB
739:...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
740:So God is dead, at least as a swearword, but hate and feces keep going strong. Le roi est mort, vive le fucking roi. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
741:Somehow is a super-weasel, a word that betrays that the author didn’t want to bother thinking out the story—“Somehow ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
742: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, #NFDB
743:Who do you think is lying to us?” Shevek demanded.
Placid, Bedap met his gaze. “Who, brother? Who but ourselves? ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
744: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, #NFDB
745:The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
746: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, #NFDB
747:There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
748:...unfair as it may be, nothing guarantees health to the old. Bodies wear out...despite the most careful maintenance. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
749: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, #NFDB
750:You have nothing. You posses nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
751:If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
752: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, #NFDB
753:In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was turned against it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
754:History must be what we have escaped from. It is what we were, not what we are. History is what we need never do again. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
755:I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
756:In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
757:Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
758: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, #NFDB
759:We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
760:We’re a rough people, born of oak, as they say, here in the western land; tempers run high, weapons are always at hand. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
761: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, #NFDB
762: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, #NFDB
763:The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on. Even ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
764:The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
765:They say one gets used to being a millionaire; so after a year or two a human being begins to get used to being a woman. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
766: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, #NFDB
767:What is the sense of giving a boundary to all... of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
768: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, #NFDB
769:What will the creature made all of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
770:You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
771: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, #NFDB
772:El tiempo no transcurría. No había tiempo. Él era el tiempo: sólo él. Era el río, la flecha, la piedra. Pero no avanzaba. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
773:For in this love he now felt there was compassion: without which love is untempered, and is not whole, and does not last. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
774: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, #NFDB
775: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, #NFDB
776: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, #NFDB
777: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, #NFDB
778:Orr had a tendency to assume that people knew what they were doing, perhaps because he generally assumed that he did not. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
779:Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
780:There is nothing, the Ice says, but Ice. – But the young volcano there to northward has another word it thinks of saying. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
781:Without war there are no heroes."
"What harm would that be?"
"Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
782:All you have to do to see life whole is to see it as mortal. I'll die, you'll die; how could we love each other otherwise? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
783:Every so often somebody writes a story or novel in the second person under the impression that it hasn’t been done before. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
784:How far a journey, Lord?"
His lips drew back and back. "A very far journey, Lady. Yet it will last only one long night. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
785: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, #NFDB
786:If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
787:Life loves to know itself, out to its furthest limits; to embrace complexity is its delight. Our difference is our beauty. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
788:Story is our only boat for sailing on the river of time, but in the great rapids and the winding shallows no boat is safe. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
789:THINKING about Homer, and it occurred to me that his two books are the two basic fantasy stories: the War and the Journey. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
790:Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
791: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, #NFDB
792:He had almost yielded, but not quite. He had not consented. It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
793:It was an ugly face, pale, coarse, and cruel, but Ged feared no man, though he might fear where such a man would guide him. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
794:She had made these with scrap wire and tools from the craft supply depot, and called them Occupations of Uninhabited Space. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
795: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, #NFDB
796:Söz sessizlikte,
ışık karanlıkta,
yaşam ölürken;
bomboş gökyüzünde
uçarken parlar atmaca.
-Ea'nın Yaradılışı ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
797:Takver looked at him with mistrustful curiosity. She was four years old. She had a round head, a round face. She was round. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
798:The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
799:The strength of Shevek's personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
800:This has been going on for two or three millennia. That is an amazingly long time for anything to mean anything to anybody. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
801:To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his nonexistence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
802:We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
803:A living body suffers pain. . . . a living body grows old; it dies. Death is the price we pay for our life and for all life. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
804:An enemy, in Karhide, is not a stranger, an invader. The stranger who comes unknown is a guest. Your enemy is your neighbor. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
805:I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
806:La libertad se apoya más sin duda en la franqueza que en la ocultación, y la libertad siempre merece que se corra el riesgo. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
807: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, #NFDB
808:Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
809:Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
810:The dead are dead. The great and mighty go their way unchecked. The only hope in the world lies in the people of no account. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
811:There are men right now who have never learned how to talk to women. How will we talk to somebody really different – aliens? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
812: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, #NFDB
813:But we're all walking in the night, now, on ground we don't know. When the day comes we may know where we are, or we may not. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
814:Det som förblir oförändrat för länge förstör sig själv. Skogen är evig därför att den dör och dör och därför lever." (s. 319) ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
815:He patted the thing he wore on his belt, a metal object like a deformed penis, and looked patronizingly at the unarmed woman. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
816:Home isn’t Mom and Dad and Sis and Bud. Home isn’t where they have to let you in. It’s not a place at all. Home is imaginary. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
817:La libertad se apoya más, sin duda, en la franqueza que en la ocultación, y la libertad siempre merece que se corra el riesgo ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
818: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, #NFDB
819:... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
820: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,#NFDB
821: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, #NFDB
822:What will the creature made all of sea-drift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking? His ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
823:You’re trying to reach progressive, humanitarian goals with a tool that isn’t suited to the job. Who has humanitarian dreams? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
824:He would go forward in the same, splendid, vulnerable integrity of body and mind towards whatever came to meet him on his road ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
825:In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
826: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, #NFDB
827:They were not victors, he and his kind, not in any way, they were the defeated still, for they had become like their “betters. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
828:This is part of what I meant about housework. If it isn't important, what is? If it isn't done honorably, where is honor? Ista ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
829:To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
830:We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone. Hidden ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
831:Yes, that. But I thought also of another thing between us. Call it trust...That is one of its names. It is a very great thing. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
832:You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
833:Everything dreams. The play of form, of being, is the dreaming of substance. Rocks have their dreams, and the earth changes.... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
834:He grinned a little as he thought it; for he had always liked that pause, that fearful pause, the moment before things changed. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
835:Hiç kimse cezayı kazanmaz, ödülü de. Aklınızı hak etmek, kazanmak gibi fikirlerden arındırın, ancak o zaman düşünebileceksiniz. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
836: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, #NFDB
837: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, #NFDB
838:He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
839:I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
840:I’ll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
841:It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
842:I will tell my tale as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that truth is a matter of the imagination. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
843:My favorite quotation from the great frontiersman Julius Caesar: “It was not certain that Britannia existed, until I went there. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
844: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, #NFDB
845: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, #NFDB
846:To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
847: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, #NFDB
848:you’re not a traitor, you’ve merely been the tool of one. I don’t punish tools. They do harm only in the hands of a bad workman. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
849:Bütün duvarlar gibi iki anlamlı, iki yüzlüydü. Neyin içeride, neyin dışarıda olduğu, duvarın hangi yanından baktığınıza bağlıydı. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
850:He loved Shevek, but he could not show him what freedom is, that recognition of each person's solitude which alone transcends it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
851: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, #NFDB
852:Honor can exist anywhere, love can exist anywhere, but justice can exist only among people who found their relationships upon it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
853: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,#NFDB
854:the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
855:Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
856:A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
857:Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
858:Little children are stoical. They cry over bumps, but they take the big things as they come, they don't whine like so many adults. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
859:The false starts and futilities of the past years proved themselves to be groundwork, foundations, laid in the dark but well laid. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
860:Deux êtres unis par un profond amour n'ont-ils pas des chances de se faire mal non moins profondément? N'en ont-ils pas le pouvoir? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
861: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, #NFDB
862:Perhaps women have more complicated selves. They know how to do more than one thing at one time. That comes late to men. If at all. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
863:There are a limited number of plots (some say seven, some say twelve, some say thirty). There is no limit to the number of stories. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
864:Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
865:At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
866:but you're not a traitor, you've merely been the tool of one. I don't punish tools. They do harm only in the hands of a bad workman. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
867:Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
868:I talk about gods; I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
869: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, #NFDB
870:Novelists probably talk less than any other kind of artist about beauty, because the word is seldom used to describe what they make. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
871:Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky. —The Creation of Éa ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
872:Pero tan inevitablemente como el futuro se convierte en pasado, el pasado se convierte en futuro. Renegar del pasado no es triunfar. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
873:The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
874:The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
875: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, #NFDB
876:We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
877: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, #NFDB
878:You cannot buy the revolution/You cannot make the revolution/You can only BE the revolution! It is in your spirit/ or it is nowhere. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
879:All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
880: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, #NFDB
881:It's when he gets so, you know, like he has to control everything or everything will be out of control, I get sort of out of control. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
882: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, #NFDB
883:The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
884:To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
885: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, #NFDB
886: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,#NFDB
887:Honor can exist anywhere, love can exist anywhere, but justice can exist only among people who found their relationships upon it. Now, ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
888:Solo en el silencio la palabra, solo en la oscuridad la luz, solo en la muerte la vida; el brillo del halcón brilla en el cielo vacío. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
889:The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
890:Ve sonra, eğer bana ihtiyacın olursa, beni çağır. Gelirim. Beni çağırırsan, mezarımdan bile çıkar gelirim Tenar ! Ama seninle kalamam. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
891:You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
892:«Al final de los tiempos el sol se devorará a sí mismo y la sombra devorará la luz, y entonces no quedará nada sino hielo y oscuridad». ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
893:And so, because he won't let himself be hurt, he does wrong to those he loves best. And then he sees that, and after all, it hurts him. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
894:Homer truly doesn’t take sides, and so he permits the story to be tragic. By tragedy, mind and soul are grieved, enlarged, and exalted. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
895: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, #NFDB
896:No entendían que uno tiene que ponerse del lado de los ganadores, o perder. Y es el hombre el que gana, siempre. El viejo conquistador. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
897:So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
898:The moment was gone; he saw it going. He did not try to hold on to it. He knew he was part of it, not it of him. He was in its keeping. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
899:Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
900: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, #NFDB
901:He thought of death, in that gap between the beginning of a step and its completion, and at the end of the step he stood on a new earth. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
902:I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
903:I talk about the gods; I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
904:Let no one else use you, Mr. Ai,” the king was saying. “Keep clear of factions. Tell your own lies, do your own deeds. And trust no one. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
905:Old age generally involves pain and danger and inevitably ends in death. The acceptance of that takes courage. Courage deserves respect. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
906:She said it seemed like the only choices offered were to want to be what other people were, or to be what other people wanted you to be. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
907:To believe that our beliefs are permanent truths which encompass reality is a sad ignorance. To let go of that belief is to find safety. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
908:To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. Tormenbod ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
909:Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'
...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
910:Being an irreligious puritan and a rational mystic, I think it's irresponsible to let a belief think for you or a chemical dream for you. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
911: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, #NFDB
912:They exist. But they are not your Masters. They never were. You are free, Tenar. You were taught to be a slave, but you have broken free. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
913:Vermediğiniz şeyi alamazsınız, kendinizi vermeniz gerekir. Devrim'i satın alamazsınız. Devrim'i yapamazsınız. Devrim olabilirsiniz ancak. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
914:İkisi de ayrılık yüzünden acı çekmişlerdi, epeyce acı çekmişlerdi, ama ikisi de bağlılıklarından kaçarak acıyı reddetmeyi düşünmemişlerdi. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
915:In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
916:No need to try to find it," said Unroy. "The sacredness is there. In the truth, the pain, the beauty. So that the telling of it is sacred. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
917:One keeps oneself neat out of mere decency mere sanity, awareness of other people. And finally even that goes, and one dribbles unashamed. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
918: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, #NFDB
919:What is evil?" asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them both. "A web we men weave." Ged answered. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
920:But Vetch, who had not done so lightly, said, “Her name is safe with you as mine is. And, besides, you knew it without my telling you . . . ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
921:Düşünceler baskı altına alınarak yok edilemez. Onlar ancak dikkate alınmayarak yok edilebilir. Düşünmeyi reddederek - değişmeyi reddederek. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
922:It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
923:she had never known who she was at all, except sometimes for a moment in meditation, when her I am became It is, and she breathed the stars ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
924: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, #NFDB
925:The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
926: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, #NFDB
927: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, #NFDB
928:Minne oppaani ystävällisyydessään minut johdattavat, / Minä seuraan, seuraan kevyesti / eikä tomuun taaksemme / jää ainuttakaan jalanjälkeä. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
929:rumors of “Alien takeovers” and “nonhuman infiltration” had become the property of paranoid politicians of dying Nationalist splinter groups ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
930: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, #NFDB
931:Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
932:Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
933:I had ignored that black cellar and gone looking for the substance of Orgoreyn aboveground, in daylight. No wonder nothing had seemed real. I ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
934:La luz es la mano izquierda de la oscuridad, y la oscuridad es la mano derecha de la luz; las dos son una, vida y muerte, juntas como amantes ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
935:No need to try to find it," said Unroy. "The sacredness is there. In the
truth, the pain, the beauty. So that the telling of it is sacred. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
936:Only what is mortal bears life, Arren. Only in death is there rebirth. The Balance is not a stillness. it is a movement--an eternal becoming. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
937: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, #NFDB
938:said, without sincerity, but with absolute truth, “It is a marvelous thing indeed for them as well, the coming to a new world, a new mankind. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
939:Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
940:To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
941: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, #NFDB
942:...was I to join them therefore? To let their acts rule my own? I will not make their choices for them, nor will I let them make mine for me! ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
943:What it has to do is move--end up in a different place from where it started. That's what narrative does. It goes. It moves. Story is change. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
944:A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
945:Don’t shove me into your pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over. My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
946:I guess what’s happened is that what used to be a shockword has become a noise that’s supposed to intensify the emotion in what you’re saying. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
947:The Akan system is a spiritual discipline with spiritual goals, but they're exactly the same goals it seeks for bodily and ethical well-being. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
948:The unknown, the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
949:The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
950:Winter hasn’t achieved in thirty centuries what Terra once achieved in thirty decades. Neither has Winter ever paid the price that Terra paid. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
951: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, #NFDB
952:If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
953:If memory remains sound and the thinking mind retains its vigor, an old intelligence may have extraordinary breadth and depth of understanding. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
954:I was alone, with a stranger, inside the walls of a dark palace, in a strange snow-changed city, in the heart of the Ice Age of an alien world. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
955:När vi övat något blir våra handlingar starka och når djupt. När vi inte känner rätta kursen blir vi förvirrade. Går vilse, förslösar vårt arv. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
956:Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
957:As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
958:I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
959:If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion... But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
960:it is as if i were dead, and this is the after-life, her in the sunlight, beyond the edge of the world, among the sons and daughters of the sea. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
961: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, #NFDB
962:I was afraid I'd fail. So I didn't work.'
And there it was, plain as a glass of water, the truth, which he had never admitted to himself. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
963:Oponerse a la vulgaridad es inevitablemente ser vulgar. Hay que ir a alguna otra parte; hay que tener otra meta; entonces el camino es distinto. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
964:We are not seeking power. We are seeking the end of power! ... The means are the end. ... Only peace brings peace, only just acts bring justice! ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
965:We demand a rebellious spirit of those who have no chance to learn that rebellion is possible, but we the privileged hold still and see no evil. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
966: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, #NFDB
967:If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
968:One day is the day for moving on, and overnight, the next day, there is no more good in moving on, because you have come where you were going to. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
969:The same old hypocrisy. 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, #NFDB
970:A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
971:Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
972: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, #NFDB
973:In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
974:Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
975:Not even need and love can defeat fate, Lavinia. Aeneas' gift is to know his fate, what he must do, and do it. In spite of need. In spite of love. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
976:The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful the life is, is from the vantage point of death. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
977:What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the book, this story . . . ? Tell me what it Means. But that’s not my job, honey. That’s your job. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
978: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, #NFDB
979:An early visitor described a Veksi village as “five big houses full of women swearing at each other and fourteen little houses full of men sulking. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
980:In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every world of it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
981:Neither grief nor pride had so much truth in them as did joy, the joy that trembled in the cold wind between sky and sea, bright and brief as fire. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
982: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, #NFDB
983: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, #NFDB
984:These two issues combined—our inability to deal with our own numbers and our insistence that we are what matters most—may well be the finish of us. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
985:What good seeking the safe course, on a journey such as this? There are senseless courses, which I shall not take; but there is no safe one. Streth ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
986: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, #NFDB
987:Hoşgeldin, oğul," dedi Ogion.
"Sana, ayrıldığım zamanki gibi geri geldim: Bir aptal olarak," dedi genç adam; sesi sertleşmiş, kalınlaşmıştı. -129 ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
988:I'm old to be raising a child. And she… She obeys me, but only because she wants to."
"It's the only justification for obedience," Ged observed. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
989:Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
990:The artist who goes into himself most deeply -- and it is a painful journey -- is the artist who touches us most closely, speaks to us most clearly. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
991: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, #NFDB
992:Crafty writers...don't allow Exposition to form Lumps. They break up the information, grind it fine, and make it into bricks to build the story with. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
993:He knew that insofar as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
994:The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
995: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, #NFDB
996:What we call 'evil' is produced by civilization, its constraints and repressions, deforming the spontaneous, free self-expression of the personality. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
997:When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
998:Ahora sabía, y era cruel saberlo, que su tarea nunca había consistido en tratar de deshacer lo que había hecho sino en terminar lo que había empezado. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
999:God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1000: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, #NFDB
1001:I tend to avoid fiction about dysfunctional urban middle-class people written in the present tense. This makes it hard to find a new novel, sometimes. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1002:A man who doesn’t detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government in earth, it would be a great joy to serve it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1003:A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1004:A man who doesn’t detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1005:Life in the auntring, or for a settled man, is repetitive, as I said; and so it can be dull. Nothing new happens. The mind always wants new happenings. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1006:THE POET CAROLYN KIZER SAID TO ME once, “Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.” Maybe storytellers are interested mostly in life and commas. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1007:Had his fear, in fact, been the personal fear that Selver might having learnt the racial hatred, reject him and treat him not as you but as one of them. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1008:It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1009:The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1010:'A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.' ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1011:For discipline is the channel in which our acts run strong and deep; where there is no direction, the deeds of men run shallow and wander and are wasted. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1012:I was willing to believe him that most modern writing was trash, on the evidence that so much old writing was trash; but I didn't put it that way to him. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1013:We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1014:You are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they could not put out the light. They could not hide you. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1015:In fact it was, the endless warm drizzle of spring - the ice of Antarctica, falling softly on the heads of the children of those responsible to melting it ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1016:The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1017:But what when there [is] not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and it’s tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1018:What did they want her back for?” “Her husband’s honor demanded it.” “I should think his honor demanded that he divorce her and find himself a decent wife. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1019:But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks through the resignation in which you have lived for days. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1020:He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1021:He said, “Please tell me, Sutty, is the institutionalised homophobia very difficult for you?” “I grew up with it.” “Under the Unists.” “Not only the Unists. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1022:If you can't lick'em, join'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight , to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1023:She waved through the dirty window from her seat as the train started up. I did not do the ape act. I stood there and did the human act as well as possible. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1024:There is no more subversive act than the act of writing from a woman's experience of life using a woman's judgment.
"Prospects for Women in Writing" 1986 ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1025:But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1026:He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1027:I hope you’ll understand that I am not quoting those great words lightly. I do mean it. Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1028:No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1029:No, I don’t mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1030:Only time could prove the Foretelling right or wrong, unless it was, as I expected, one of those admirable professional prophecies applicable to any outcome. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1031:We're not outside the world... We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see? If we don't say the words, what is their in our world? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1032:George Orr stayed in Portland because he had always lived there and because he had no reason to believe that life anywhere else would be better, or different. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1033:He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1034:He was not interested in detached knowledge, science for science's sake: there was no use learning anything if it was of no use. Relevance was his touchstone. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1035:Only in silence the word,
Only in dark the light,
Only in dying life:
Bright the hawk's flight
On the empty sky.
—The Creation of Éa ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1036:They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1037:A medida que un hombre adquiere más poder y sabiduría, se le estrecha el camino, hasta que al fin no elige, y hace pura y simplemente lo que tiene que hacer... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1038:The universe as a giant harpstring, oscillating in and out of existence! What note does it play, by the way? Passages from the Numerical Harmonies, I supposed? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1039:To enter with heart and mind into the world of the imagination may be to head deliberately and directly toward, or back toward, engagement with the real world. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1040:To make something well is to give yourself to it, to seek wholeness, to follow spirit. To learn to make something well can take your whole life. It’s worth it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1041:You don’t see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?” “No—” “To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.” I ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1042:A fantasy is a journey. It is a journey into the subconscious mind, just as psychoanalysis is. Like psychoanalysis, it can be dangerous; and it will change you. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1043:Dünyanın ne kadar güzel olduğunu görmenin yolu, onu ay gibi görmekten geçiyor. Yaşamın ne güzel olduğunu görmenin yolu ölümün bakış açısından bakmaktan geçiyor. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1044:He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in. But ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1045:We tried mindspeech again. I had never before sent repeatedly to a total non-receiver. The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1046:Ama onların da Sopli gibi öleceğini de biliyorum. Benim öleceğimi de. Senin öleceğini de... Ve bunu bilmek çok değerli. Çok büyük bir armağan. Ben olma armağanı. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1047:But I can't drop my death. I'll hold ít to the end, I'll cherísh it, hate it, eat it, drink ít, listen to it, give it my bed, mourn it, everythíng but let ít go. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1048:He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1049:In Enlad," said Arren after a while, "we have a story about the boy whose schoolmaster
was a stone:'
"Aye?... What did he learn?"
"Not to ask questions. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1050:You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes - the wall, the wall! ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1051:Anger points powerfully to the denial of rights, but the exercise of rights can't life and thrive on anger. It lives and thrives on the dogged pursuit of justice. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1052:Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1053:If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1054:Question 14: “Are you living your secret desires?” Floored again. I finally didn’t check Yes, Somewhat, or No, but wrote in “I have none, my desires are flagrant. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1055:There’s a Hainish parable of the Mirror. If the glass is whole, it reflects the whole world, but broken, it shows only fragments, and cuts the hand that holds it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1056:To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven. — CHUANG TSE : XXIII ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1057:Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1058:And mage and sailor are not so far apart; both work with the powers of sky and sea, and bend great winds to the uses of their hands, bringing near what was remote. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1059:he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up! ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1060:he thought no more of performing the lesser arts of magic than a bird thinks of flying. Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1061:I am offered the Grand Inquisitor's choice. Will you choose freedom without happiness, or happiness without freedom? The only answer one can make, I think, is: No. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1062:The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1063:There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1064:There was room for them. A great deal of Italy, back then, was forest. Where man goes, trees die; or, to paraphrase Tacitus, we make a desert and call it progress. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1065:You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes – the walls, the walls! ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1066:...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1067:my heart told me incontrovertibly that neither gender could go far without the other. So, in my story, neither the woman nor the man can get free without the other. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1068:You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Fortelling?"
"No..."
"To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1069:existed. He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1070:I felt the pressure of people all around me, all the time. People around me, people with me, people pressing on me, pressing me to be one of them, one of the people. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1071:In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1072:See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1073:Apollo blinds those who press too close in worship. Don’t look straight at the sun. Go into a dark bar for a bit and have a beer with Dionysios, every now and then. I ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1074:Everything is old, here. We are old - the Masters."
"You're not," Irian said. She thought him between thirty and forty[...]
"But I came far. Miles can be years. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1075:Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the daily stock market report. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1076:If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1077:I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1078:so long as I’ve tried to understand what the author tried to do, and have no illusions of my critical infallibility, condoning inferiority isn’t an option open to me. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1079:The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1080:There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1081:For heroes do not make history—that is the historian’s job—but, passive, let themselves be borne along, swept up to the crest of the tide of change, of chance, of war. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1082:I am yours by parentage and custom and by duty undertaken towards you. I am your wizard. But it is time you recalled that, tough I am a servant, I am not your servant. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1083:It had never occured to me that thinking and music are so much alike. In fact, you can say music is another way of thinking or maybe thinking is another kind of music. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1084:People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons from within. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination, #NFDB
1085:All her life she had looked into dark; but this was a vaster darkness, this night on the ocean. There was no end to it. There was no roof. It went out beyond the stars. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1086:Independence was as far as his mind could reach. Yet I think his mind groped further, towards what he could not see, the body's obscure, inalterable dream of mutuality. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1087:Lanet olsun!” dedi yüksek sesle. Pravca, küfür etmek için iyi bir dil değildi. Cinsellik pis bir şey olmayınca, günaha girme diye bir şey de olmayınca küfretmek zordur. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1088:The social function of narrative is not limited to 'primitive' people sitting around the fire telling each other where Fire came from and why they're sitting around it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1089:when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1090:A bully doesn’t answer you; he may hear but pays no heed; he talks on as if you were of no account, and it gives him the advantage always at the start, though not always ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1091:An Odonian’s goal is positive, not negative. Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely destructive. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1092:Cultural shock was nothing much compared to the biological shock I suffered as a human male among human beings who were, five-sixths of the time, hermaphroditic neuters. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1093:In the big, crowded, noisy room where golden suns swam on the walls and the years and Years were told on golden dials, he searched for the alien, the stranger, his wife. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1094:It doesn't have to be the way it is. That is what fantasy says. It doesn't say "Anything goes" --- that's irresponsibility, when two and one make five, or forty-seven... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1095:Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1096:You were the vessel of evil. The Evil is poured out. It is done. It is buried in it's own tomb. You were never made for cruelty and darkness; you were made to hold light ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1097:All that grieved me - that I was half one thing and half another and nothing wholly - was the sorrow of my childhood, but the strength and use of my life after I grew up. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1098:And if he prove apt I will keep him as prentice, or see to it that he is schooled as fits his gifts. For to keep dark the mind of the mageborn, that is a dangerous thing. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1099:The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1100:We who live by writing and publishing want — and should demand — our fair share of the proceeds. But the name of our beautiful reward is not profit. It’s name is freedom. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1101:A rock is a good thing, too, you know. If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we'd lead a hard life here. Enjoy the illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1102:As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1103:If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1104:I suppose the Valley of the Na, in Always Coming Home, is where I think I'd most like to live; but that's partly because I did live there, all the summers of my childhood. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1105:As we did without clergy, let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1106:I'm a part of it. Not separate from it. 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. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1107:It is what it looks like and is called. A jail. it is not a front for something else, not a facade, not a pseudonym. It is real, the real thing, the thing behind the words. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1108:No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1109:She couldn’t be a hero in the hero-tale sense. Not even in a fantasy? No. Because to me, fantasy isn’t wishful thinking, but a way of reflecting, and reflecting on reality. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1110:As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1111:Death sentences are short and very, very manly. Life sentences aren’t. They go on and on, all full of syntax and qualifying clauses and confusing references and getting old. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1112:If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home. Takver ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1113:The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1114:There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1115:There’s a point, around age twenty,” Bedap said, “when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1116:Where will you sleep?” he inquired, sitting down heavily on the bed. “No where,” the Alien replied, its toneless voice dividing the word into two equally significant wholes. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1117:An irrelevant and poignant sensation of pleasure rose in him, like a tree that grew up and flowered all in one moment with its roots in his loins and its flowers in his mind. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1118:I think we shall have trouble learning how to lie, having for so long practiced the art of going round and round the truth without ever lying about it, or reaching it either. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1119:It was not what he had meant to say, not what he had wanted to say. He had wanted Kostant to talk. But words fell out of his own mouth and bounced around him like hailstones. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1120:He felt disinclined to move. To move would disturb the perfect, stable moment, the balance of the world. The winter light along the ceiling was beautiful beyond expression. He ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1121:Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. When it was made, they lay in each other’s arms, holding love, asleep. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1122:They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison. But I will not believe that. I want the walls down. I want solidarity, human solidarity. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1123:Yirmi yaş dolaylarında öyle bir an vardır ki," dedi Bedap, "yaşamının geri kalan kısmı boyunca ya herkes gibi olmayı, ya da farklılıklarını erdeme dönüştürmeyi seçmen gerekir. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1124:But because she was not a girl now, she was not awed, but only wondered at how men ordered their world into this dance of masks, and how easily a woman might learn to dance it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1125:But I think we will have trouble learning how to lie, having for so long practiced the art of going round an round the truth without ever lying about it, or reaching it either. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1126:He is the earth and sunlight, the leaves of trees, the eagle's flight. He is alive. And all who ever died, live; they are reborn and have no end, nor will there ever be an end. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1127:Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new. When it was made, they lay in each other's arms, holding love, asleep. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1128:Sólo una pregunta tiene respuesta, Genry, y ya conocemos la respuesta... La vida es posible sólo a causa de esa permanente e intolerable incertidumbre: no conocer lo que vendrá ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1129:It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1130:I think the imagination is the single most useful tool mankind possesses. It beats the opposable thumb. I can imagine living without my thumbs, but not without my imagination. I ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1131:To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained, the vaster the appetite for more. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1132:A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1133:All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1134:for though only the society could give security and stability, only the individual, the person, had the power of moral choice—the power of change, the essential function of life. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1135:In the night one of them cried out aloud, dreaming. The other one reached his arm out sleepily, muttering reassurance, and the blind warm weight of his touch outweighed all fear. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1136:Sometimes I not only stand there and take it, I even smile at them and say I'm sorry. When I feel that smile coming onto my face, I wish I could take my face off and stamp on it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1137:The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.
The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1138:What happens to a man who just won't cooperate?"
"Well, he moves on. The others get tired of him, you know. They make fun of him, or they get rough with him, beat him up . . . ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1139:'Banished men should never speak their native tongue; it comes bitter from their mouth. And this language suits a traitor better, I think; drips off one's teeth like sugar-syrup.' ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1140:I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a planet looks smooth, from orbit. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1141:On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on your drink between drafts, hot beer is a thing you come to appreciate. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1142:The most winning characteristic of the rather harsh Cetian temperament was curiosity, inopportune, and inexhaustible curiosity; Cetians died eagerly, curious as to what came next. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1143:The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1144:Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1145:At least he sought this danger of his own will; and the nearer he came to it the more sure he was that, for this time at least, for this hour perhaps before his death, he was free. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1146:Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1147:Desar's chosen field in mathematics was so esoteric that nobody in the Institute or the Math Federation could really check on his progress. That was precisely why he had chosen it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1148:It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1149:The infinite possibility, the unlimited and unqualified wholeness of being of the uncommitted, the nonacting, the uncarved: the being who, being nothing but himself, is everything. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1150:The infinite possibility, the unlimited and unqualified wholeness of being of the uncommitted, the nonacting, the uncarved; the being who, being nothing but himself, is everything. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1151:The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1152:We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1153:It is very seldom,” the young man said at last, “that dragons ask to do men favours.”
“But it is very common,” said the dragon, “for cats to play with mice before they kill them. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1154:kids could and did swim in it happily as in their native element, at least until some teacher or professor told them they had to come out, dry off, and breathe modernism ever after. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1155:Love's just one of the ways through, and it can go wrong, and miss. Pain never misses. But therefore we don't have much choice about enduring it! We will, whether we want to or not. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1156:Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1157:Siding more with Keats on this point, I generally avoid such fictions—hence both my liking for nonrealist writers and my initial reluctance to trust Saramago’s painfully ugly story. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1158:Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1159:There’s another option. You can consider the reader, not as a helpless victim or a passive consumer, but as an active, intelligent, worthy collaborator. A colluder, a coillusionist. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1160:...though I want to see myself as a woman of strong feeling but peaceable instincts, I have to realize how often anger fuels my acts and thoughts, how very often I indulge in anger. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1161:To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful, one must compare and contrast it with something worse - not better! ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1162:While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1163:Wold felt sorry for him, as he often did for young men, who have not seen how passion and plan over and over are wasted, how their lives and acts are wasted between desire and fear. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1164:Cinders patter, falling with the snow. We creep infinitesimally northward through the dirty chaos of a world in the process of making itself.
Praise then Creation unfinished! ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1165:Özgürlük ağır bir yüktür, ruhun yüklenmesi gereken büyük ve garip bir sorumluluk. Kolay değildir. Verilen bir armağan değil, yapılan bir seçimdir; bu seçim de zor bir seçim olabilir. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1166:The unknown,” said Faxe’s soft voice in the forest, “the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1167:Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1168:I fear liars, and I fear tricksters, and worst I fear the bitter truth. And so I rule my country well. Because only fear rules men. Nothing else works. Nothing else lasts long enough. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1169:I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I write. I'm not sure of the nature of my existence, and wonder to find myself writing. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1170:We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel … is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1171:Her despair grew so great that it burst her breast open and like a bird of fire shattered the stone and broke out into the light of day--the light of day, faint in her windowless room. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1172:I have watched my country accept, mostly quite complacently, along with a lower living standard for more and more people, a lower moral standard. A moral standard based on advertising. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1173:I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1174:It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself, Therem. Both and one. A shadow on snow. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1175:No, I don’t mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. It grows in us, that fear. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1176:We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1177:And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1178:And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1179:Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1180:It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man; a name that sticks, that fits, that convinces. I was half convinced myself. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1181:What is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1182:Words are my matter. I have chipped one stone for thirty years and still it is not done, that image of the thing I cannot see. I cannot finish it and set it free, transformed to energy. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1183:A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer's job is to be its medium. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1184:It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1185:Laime ir saistīta ar loģisko prātu, un tikai prāts spēj to novērtēt. Man tika tas, ko cilvēks nevar ne nopelnīt, ne paturēt, un bieži vien pat nepazinās saņemšanas brīdī, - sirds prieks. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1186:She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1187:...close up, a world's all dirt and rocks... The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1188:If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1189:No one else, no thing even, has an existence of its own for him; he sees the world only as a means to his end. It doesn’t make any difference if his end is good; means are all we’ve got … ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1190:He knew once more, at last, after this long, bitter, wasted time, who he was and where he was.
But where he must go in the years to come, that he could not see; and he feared to see it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1191:We men dream dreams, we work magic, we do good, we do evil. The dragons do not dream. They are dreams. They do not work magic: it is their substance, their being. They do not do; they are. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1192:And nightly under the simple stars
As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away
All the moon long I heard, blessed among stables,
the nightjars
Flashing into the dark. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1193:I learned that the story has no beginning, and no story has an end. That the story is all muddle, all middle. That the story is never true, but that the lie is indeed a child of silence. By ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1194:It is the nature of the idea to be communicated, written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass it craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows stronger from being stepped on. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1195:Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1196:The insistent permissiveness of the late twentieth century had produced fully as much sex-guilt and sex-fear in its heirs as had the insistent repressiveness of the late nineteenth century. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1197:There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1198:The sense that you are in touch with something really different - completely human and extremely understandable emotionally - but really different. That's one of the great things novels do. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1199:The truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing but does only and wholly what he must do. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1200:Unless physical action reflects psychic action, unless the deeds express the person, I get very bored with adventure stories; often it seems that the more action there is, the less happens. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1201:You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1202:And the mills of capitalism provide them. Supply meets demand. Fantasy becomes a commodity, an industry. Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivialises. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1203:Hija de un antropólogo, esta disciplina influyó en su concepción del hombre involucrado en culturas que le son ajenas. Su obra puede ser vista como un amplio fresco antropológico-fantástico. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1204:I suspect that the distinction between a maternal and a paternal instinct is scarcely worth making; the parental instinct, the wish to protect, to further, is not a sex-linked characteristic… ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1205:Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom...and that freedom must not be compromised. It must be available to all who need it, when they need it, and that's always. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1206:So when one stands in a cherished place for the last time before a voyage without return, he sees it all whole, and real, and dear, as he has never seen it before and never will see it again. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1207:As far as the eye can see the infertile desert lies in the pitiless glare of the merciless sun, a lifeless, trackless, feckless, fuckless waste strown with the bones of luckless wayfarers. . . ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1208:Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1209:If you are fantasising, you may be daydreaming, or you might be using your imagination therapeutically as a means of discovering reasons Reason does not know, discovering yourself to yourself. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1210:If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1211:Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom...and that freedom must not be compromised. It must be available to all who need it, when they need it, and that's always. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1212:that silent vastness of fire and ice that said in enormous letters of black and white DEATH, DEATH, written right across a continent. The sledge pulled like a feather, and we laughed with joy. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1213:The life of every man is in the Center of Time, for all were seen in the seeing of Meshe, and are in his eye. We are the pupils of his Eye... Our doing is his Seeing: our being is his Knowing. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1214:They made love. Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new. When it was made, they lay in each other's arms, holding love, asleep. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1215:What is love of one’s country; is it hate of one’s uncountry? Then it’s not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That’s a good thing, but one mustn’t make a virtue of it, or a profession. . . ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1216:If you eat your...leafy greens and...develop your abs and blabs...in order to live a long life, that's good, and maybe it will work. But the longer a life is, the more of it will be in old age. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1217:If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the character talk. Don't censor, don't control. Listen, and write. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1218:In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1219:I suspect that the distinction between a maternal and a paternal instinct is scarcely worth making; the parental instinct, the wish to protect, to further, is not a sex-linked characteristic... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1220:Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1221:Morality and grammar are related. Human beings live by the word. Socrates said, “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” I’ve had that sentence pinned up over my desk for a long time. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1222:The insistent permissiveness of the late twentieth century had produced fully as much sex-guilt and sex-fear in its heirs as had the insistent repressiveness of the late nineteenth century. Orr ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1223:...Vermediğimiz şeyi alamazsınız, kendinizi vermeniz gerekir. Devrim'i satın alamazsınız. Devrim'i yapamazsınız. Devrim olabilirsiniz ancak. Devrim ya ruhunuzdadır ya da hiç bir yerde değildir. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1224:We cried “Sisterhood is powerful!”—and they believed us. Terrified misogynists of both sexes were howling that the house was burning down before most feminists found out where the matches were. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1225:And hearing it that way as a kid, I thought, Hunh? but didn’t say anything, because there is no way, no possible way, a kid can ask about everything grownups say that the kid thinks Hunh? about. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1226:Farfetching. What one is after when farfetching might be described as the intuitive perception of a moral entirety; and thus it tends to find expression not in rational symbols, but in metaphor. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1227:I hated him at such times, with a hatred that rose straight up out of the death that lay within my spirit. I hated the harsh, intricate, obstinate demands that he made on me in the name of life. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1228:In feudal times the aristocracy had sent their sons to university, conferring superiority on the institution. Nowadays it was the other way round: the university conferred superiority on the man. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1229:I think most old people know that, and many of us try to keep our thinking on the positive side as a matter of self-preservation, as well as dignity, the wish not to end with a prolonged whimper. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1230:The opposite of spare time is, I guess, occupied time. In my case I still don’t know what spare time is because all my time is occupied. It always has been and it is now. It’s occupied by living. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1231:They just came to look, as if she were the Great Tower in Rodarred, or the Canyon of the Tulaevea. A phenomenon, a monument. They were awed, adoring. She snarled at them: Think your own thoughts! ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1232:We make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build up the world with it. Babies do it, we all do it; we filter out most of what our senses report. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1233:What's wrong with pleasure, Takver? why don't you want it?"
"Nothing's wrong with it. And I do want it. Only I don't need it. And if I take what I don't need, I'll never get to what I do need. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1234:He lost weight; he walked light on the earth. Lack of physical labour, lack of variety of occupation, lack of social and sexual intercourse, none of these appeared to him as lacks, but as freedom. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1235:If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1236:Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness is the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1237:Making female noises, shrieking and squeaking and being shrill, all those things that annoy people with longer vocal cords. Another case where the length of organs seems to be so important to men. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1238:The means are the end, only peace brings peace, only just acts bring justice...the separation of means and ends was false. For her as for him, there was no end. There was process: process was all. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1239:People had huddled back into the old core of the city; and once the suburbs had been looted, they burned. Like Moscow in 1812, acts of God or vandalism: they were no longer wanted, and they burned. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1240:As a child in Atuan, Tenar had learned how to learn. There seemed always to be a great deal to be learned, more than she would have believed when she was a prentice-priestess or the pupil of a mage. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1241:Dünyada sadece tek bir şey kötü yürekli bir insana karşı durabilir. O da başka bir insandır. Ayıbımızda yatar şerefimiz. Sadece bizim
ruhumuz, kötülüğe açık olan ruhumuz, onu yenmeye muktedirdir. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1242:In a State, even a democracy, where power is hierarchic, how can you prevent the storage of information from becoming yet another source of power to the powerful—another piston in the great machine? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1243:There is no kingdom like the forests. It is time I went there, went in silence, went alone. And maybe there I would learn at last what no act or art or power can teach me, what I have never learned. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1244:And the truth is that as a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do . . . ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1245:figurines and souvenirs and kickshaws and mementos and gewgaws and bric-a-brac, everything either useless to begin with or ornamented so as to disguise its use; acres of luxuries, acres of excrement. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1246:I’d like a poster showing two old people with stooped backs and arthritic hands and time-worn faces sitting talking, deep, deep in conversation. And the slogan would be “Old Age Is Not for the Young. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1247:I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the stories have to square with my consciousness as a woman and my conscience as a human being. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1248:I'm not sure. I'm exceedingly ignorant-"
The young man laughed and bowed. "I'm honored!" he said."I've lived here for three years, but haven't yet acquired enough ignorance to be worth mentioning. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1249:In bed, they made love. Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. When it was made, they lay in each other’s arms, holding love, asleep. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1250:La libertad es una carga pesada, extraña y abrumadora para el espíritu que ha de llevarla. No es cómoda. No es un regalo que se recibe, sino una elección que se hace, y la elección puede ser difícil. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1251:Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they stared ahead again. I had thought that only beetles had this delusion of Progress. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1252:The elimination of war. Did the Ancient Hainish postulate that continuous sexual capacity and organized social aggression, neither of which are attributes of any mammal but man, are cause and effect? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1253:They tended to be stolid, slovenly, heavy, and to my eyes effeminate - not in the sense of delicacy, etc., but in just the opposite sense: a gross, bland fleshiness, a bovinity without point or edge. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1254:I wish we could stop using the word belief in matters of fact, leaving it where it belongs, in matters of religious faith and secular hope. I believe we'd avoid a lot of unnecessary pain if we did so. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1255:There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1256:The Veksi are an angry species. Their social life consists largely of arguments, recriminations, quarrels, fights, outbursts of fury, fits of the sulks, brawls, feuds, and impulsive acts of vengeance. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1257:All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1258:But the death of a great mage, who has many times in his life walked on the dry steep hillsides of death’s kingdom, is a strange matter: for the dying man goes not blindly, but surely, knowing the way. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1259:I hate the bigotry you believe in. But I'll try not to hate you."
"Why?" he asked. His voice was cold, as she remembered it.
"Hate eats the hater," she quoted from a familiar text of the Telling. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1260:My lord, do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.” There ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1261:Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that's the real art; it makes the work inexhaustible. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1262:There are souls, he thought, who's umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as the enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1263:There are talking dogs all over the place, unbelievably boring they are, on and on and on about sex and shit and smells, and smells and shit and sex, and do you love me, do you love me, do you love me. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1264:Ward: Which would you rather have, a National Book Award or a Hugo?
Le Guin: Oh, a Nobel, of course.
Ward: They don't give Nobel Awards in fantasy.
Le Guin: Maybe I can do something for peace. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1265:Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy--existence itself--is essentially change. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1266:Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1267:So rest a while, we can talk in the cool of the evening. Or the cool of the morning. There 's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was."
-Hawk
Who had been Archmage
The Other Wind ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1268:Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1269:All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people . ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1270:And he would watch the snow falling, thin and ceaseless, on the empty lands below the window, and feel the dull cold grow within him, till it seemed no feeling was left to him except a kind of weariness. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1271:Here you think the incentive to work is finances, need for money or desire for profit, but where there's no money the real motives are clearer, maybe. people like to do things. They like to do them well. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1272:I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1273:- La voz del mar
(...)
- ¿Cómo la oyes tú?
- Como diciendo el sonido ahm.
- En el Habla Arcana significa el principio, o hace mucho tiempo. Pero yo oigo ohb, que es una forma de decir el fin. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1274:You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1275:And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do.... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1276:But nobody in one lifetime could read more than a fragment of what was here, this broken labyrinth of words, this shattered, interrupted story of a people and a world through the centuries, the millennia. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1277:If you go ahead, if you keep running, wherever you run you will meet danger and evil, for it drives you, it chooses the way you go. You must choose. You must seek what seeks you. You must hunt the hunter. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1278:Kırbaçlarını, para ve yolculuk hakkı için kürekçilik yapanların sırtına hiç indirmiyorlardı, ama kimisi kırbaçlanan, kimisi de kırbaçlanmayan bir mürettebat arasında pek arkadaşlık ortamı oluşturulamazdı. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1279:Onlardan korkuyorsun çünkü ölümden korkuyorsun haklı olarak: Çünkü ölüm ölüm korkunçtur ve ölümden korkmak gerekir... Ve yaşam da korkunç bir şeydir... ve yaşamdan hem korkulmalı hem de yaşam övülmelidir. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1280:Imagination, working at full strength, can shake us out of our fatal, adoring self-absorption and make us look up and see- with terror or with relief- that the world does not, in fact, belong to us at all. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1281:It’s always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don’t make changes, don’t risk disapproval, don’t upset your syndics. It’s always easiest to let yourself be governed. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1282:No normal human being who had experienced time-slippage of even a few decades between League worlds would volunteer for a round trip of centuries. The Surveyors were escapists, misfits. They were nuts. Ten ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1283:She had not realized how very different people were, how differently they saw life. She felt as if she had looked up and suddenly seen a whole new planet hanging huge and populous right outside the window. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1284:the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of those two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1285:He had been groping and grabbing after certainty, as if it were something he could possess. He had been demanding a security, a guarantee, which is not granted: and which, if granted, would become a prison. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1286:If there are frontiers between the civilised and the barbaric, between the meaningful and the unmeaning, they are not lines on a map nor are they regions of the earth. They are boundaries of the mind alone. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1287:If there are frontiers between the civilized and the barbaric, between the meaningful and the unmeaning, they are not lines on a map nor are they regions of the earth. They are boundaries of the mind alone. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1288:Loss of face for the Commensals, caught lying. You will be a treasure, a long-lost hearth-brother, to King Argaven, Genry. For a while. You must send for your Star Ship at once, at the first chance you get. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1289:Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice. Life – evolution – the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy – existence itself – is essentially change. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1290:Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1291:You're a respectable woman, dearie, and her reputation is a woman's wealth."
"Her wealth," Tenar repeated in the same blank way; then she said it again: "Her wealth. Her treasure. Her hoard. Her value... ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1292:Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken by the world. They gyre and fall; they see through everything, and are blind. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1293:By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the living word into dead law. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1294:My Real Children starts quietly, then suddenly takes you on two roller-coaster rides at once, swooping dizzily through a double panorama and ending in a sort of super Sophie's Choice. A daring tour de force. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1295:Honestly, orthodoxy concerns me about as much as it concerns your average jackrabbit. I only follow rules that take me where I want to go. If there aren't any rules, I make up my own and follow them strictly. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1296:I am sorry, I am very sorry to ask you to lie," he said, so earnestly that I wondered if it hurt him to lie. That made him seem more like a god than a human being. If it hurt to lie, how could you stay alive? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1297:I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the entire willpower, the accumulated strength of my entire existence, to press one damned OFF button. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1298:Laws are made against the impulse a people most fears in itself. Do not kill was the Shing's vaunted single Law. All else was permitted: which meant, perhaps, there was little else they really wanted to do... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1299:Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1300:Yes. There's really only one question that can be answered, Genry, and we already know the answer....The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1301:But the fact is that, starting with Plato’s Republic in Philosophy 1-A when I was seventeen, I read utopias as novels. Actually, I still read everything as novels, including history, memoir, and the newspaper. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1302:There seems to be a firewall in my mind against ideas expressed in numbers and graphs rather than words, or in abstract words such as Sin or Creativity. I just don’t understand. And incomprehension is boredom. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1303:Thus they both set a fatal trap for the believer: if you believe in God you can’t believe in evolution, and vice versa. But this is rather like saying if you believe in Tuesday you can’t believe in artichokes. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1304:To find a new world, maybe you have to have lost one. Maybe you have to be lost. The dance of renewal, the dance that made world, was always danced here at the edge of things, on the brink, on the foggy coast. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1305:Confucius and you are both dreams, and I who say you are dreams am a dream myself. This is a paradox. Tomorrow a wise man may explain it; that tomorrow will not be for ten thousand generations. — CHUANG TSE: II ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1306:I thought also of another thing between us. Call it trust... That is one of its names. It is a very great thing. Though each of us alone is weak, having that we are strong, stronger than the powers of the dark. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1307:I tried to think about what he had asked me to do, to step so far beyond myself. I found it difficult to think about. It was as if it hung over me, this huge choice I must make, this future I could not imagine. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1308:It’s a good place for a child, the woods. You don’t learn much about people, but you learn silence. Patience. And that there’s nothing much to fear in the wilderness—less than there is on a farm or in the city. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1309:I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for—so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1310:Nobody owns anything to rob. . . . As for violence . . . Oiie, would you murder me, ordinarily? And if you felt like it, would a law against it stop you? Coercion is the least efficient means of obtaining order. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1311:A writer who wants to write good stuff needs to read great stuff. If you don’t read widely, or read only writers in fashion at the moment, you’ll have a limited idea of what can be done with the English language. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1312:Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. Between thought and sent-thought is no gap; they are one act. There is no room for the lie. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1313:Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and when we come back, it may be very hard to describe where we have been. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1314:He copulated with a number of girls, but copulation was not the joy it ought to be. It was a mere relief of need, like evacuating, and he felt ashamed of it afterward because it involved another person as object. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1315:The revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin. We can't stop here. We must go on. We must take the risks. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1316:This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1317:When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1318:A decision worthy of the name is based on observation, factual information, intellectual and ethical judgment. Opinion—that darling of the press, the politician, and the poll—may be based on no information at all. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1319:And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1320:No, I don’t mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. It grows in us, that fear. It grows in us year by year. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1321:Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads and cities of fidelity: a landscape inhabitable by human beings. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1322:Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of what we know though we may not know we know it. The rarest dream is the dream that tells us what we have not known. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1323:Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1324:A wizard’s power of Changing and of Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1325:But was not a theory of which all the elements were provably true a simple tautology? In the region of the unprovable, or even the disprovable, lay the only chance for breaking out of the circle and going ahead. In ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1326:I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1327:Sanki ezelden beri bu sessiz varlığın yanında, kararmakta olan sessiz bir diyarda yürüyormuş gibi geldi Ged'e. İçindeki gayret ve dikkat hisleri köreldi. Sanki uzun, çok uzun bir düşte, hiçbir yere doğru yürüyordu. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1328:a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1329:Felicidade tem a ver com a razão, só pode ser conquistada pela razão. O que ganhei foi uma coisa que não se pode conquistar, não se pode manter e, muitas vezes, não se pode nem reconhecer no momento; falo de júbilo. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1330:Hideo," said my mother, in the terrifying way women have of passing without interval from one subject to another because they have them all present in their mind at once, "you haven't found any kind of relationship? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1331:Wasn’t it immoral to do work you didn’t enjoy? The work needed doing but a lot of people didn’t care what they were posted to and changed jobs all the time; they should have volunteered. Any fool could do this work. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1332:He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him; he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it at demand. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1333:He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1334:His words cost him so much, she thought, not like hers that just came dancing out of the air and went back into it. He spoke from his marrow. It made what he said a solemn compliment, which she accepted gratefully... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1335:The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1336:Using the Net is easy, but getting your meaning across there is just as hard as it is in print. Perhaps harder, because it appears that a lot of people read more hastily and carelessly on the screen than on the page. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1337:Bedap, who had been putting on weight at the waist and was serious about exercise, was trotting earnestly around the playing field. The others were sitting on a dusty bank under trees, getting their exercise verbally. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1338:Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1339:Go into a dark bar for a bit and have a beer with Dionysios, every now and then. I talk about the gods; I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1340:He was a hard shrewd jovial politician, whose acts of kindness served his interest and whose interest was himself. His type is panhuman. I had met him on Earth, and on Hain, and on Ollul. I expect to meet him in Hell. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1341:I have become very critical of the whole book award system and could preach on that subject for quite a while, but I do know what an award can mean to a writer early in her career. It can give an essential validation. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1342:I’m not dead. I sleep sometimes. Sleep comes very close to death, everyone knows that. The dead walk in dreams, everyone knows that. They come to you alive, and they say things. They walk out of death into the dreams. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1343:She laughed again, and she looked at me. Just for a moment. But she looked, she saw. She wasn't looking at me to see what she looked like, she was looking me to see what I looked like. That is unusual in my experience ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1344:Under his feet he felt the hillroots going down and down into the dark, and over his head he saw the dry, far fires of the stars. Between, all things were his to order, to command. He stood at the center of the world. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1345:When things don't change any longer, that's the end result of entropy, the heat-death of the universe. The more things go on moving, interrelating, conflicting, changing, the less balance there is - and the more life. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1346:a man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life’s sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1347:Biz hayal gücü zengin insanlar'Evvel zaman içinde bir ejderha varmış.' ya da 'Toprakta bir delikte bir hobbit yaşarmış.' gibi cümlelerle, böyle gerçek dışı şeylerle kendi tuhaf tarzımız sayesinde hakikate ulaşabiliriz. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1348:In the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order that the lie of God might be God’s truth, the universe at once began to exist. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1349:Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the book, this story ... ? Tell me what it Means.
But that is not my job, honey. That's your job. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1350:Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1351:She touched his face and tied his hair back for him. Her hands were cool. He had never felt anything pleasanter in all his life than the touch of her hands. He reached out for her hand. She was not there, she had gone. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1352:They move their heads around and flatten out their mouth and nose on the other person’s mouth and nose and open their mouths in different ways, and you are supposed to feel sort of hot or wet or something as you watch. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1353:What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we call psychosis is sometimes simply realism. But human beings can't live on realism alone. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1354:The label YA actually means nothing except that the protagonists, or some of them, are young. Publishers like it because it is a secure marketing niche. But the cost of security is exclusion from literary consideration. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1355:The unknown...the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought...The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1356:we must learn to keep the balance. Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice we must not act without. Who am i-though i have the power to do it- to punish and reward, playing with men's destinies? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1357:assumed that if you removed a human being’s natural incentive to work—his initiative, his spontaneous creative energy—and replaced it with external motivation and coercion, he would become a lazy and careless worker. But ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1358:itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1359:Nothing is boring if you are aware of it. It may be irritating, but it is not boring. If it is pleasant the pleasure will not fail so long as you are aware of it. Being aware is the hardest work the soul can do, I think. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1360:The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1361:Be still!” the Head Isle-Man said roughly, for he knew, as did most of them, that a wizard may have subtle ways of telling the truth, and may keep the truth to himself, but that if he says a thing the thing is as he says. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1362:Jag skulle inte be en sjuk man att löpa kapplopp", sa Sparvhök. "Inte heller skulle jag lägga sten på en rygg som redan var för tungt lastad". Det framgick inte tydligt om han tänkte på sig själv eller på världen i stort. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1363:The tongue they speak there is not like any spoken in the Archipelago or the other Reaches, and they are a savage people, white-skinned, yellow-haired, and fierce, liking the sight of blood and the smell of burning towns. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1364:All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1365:Ernest Hemingway would have died rather than have syntax. Or semicolons. 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.” And ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1366:It appears that we've given up on the long-range view. That we've decided not to think about consequences—about cause and effect. Maybe that's why I feel that I live in exile. I used to live in a country that had a future. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1367:Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1368:Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1369:What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1370:You know, I don't think a lot about why one book connects with its readers and another doesn't. Probably because I don't want to start thinking, "Am I popular?" I spent way too much time thinking about that in high school. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1371:I think if you have lost a great happiness and try to recall it, you are only asking for sorrow, but if you do not try to dwell on the happiness, sometimes you find it dwelling in your heart and body, silent but sustaining. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1372:I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . . . Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1373:He was clearly aware of only one thing, his own total isolation. The world had fallen out from under him, and he was left alone.
To die is to lose the self and rejoin the rest. He had kept himself, and lost the rest. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1374:I did not deliberately invent Earthsea, I did not think ‘Hey wow — islands are archetypes and archipelagoes are superarchetypes and let’s build us an archipelago! I am not an engineer, but an explorer. I discovered Earthsea. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1375:It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1376:Meaning in art isn’t the same as meaning in science. The meaning of the second law of thermodynamics, so long as the words are understood, isn’t changed by who reads it, or when, or where. The meaning of Huckleberry Finn is. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1377:. . . the literature of imaginatiion, even when tragic, is reassuring, not necessarily in the sense of offering nostalgic comfort, but because it offers a world large enough to contain alternatives and therefore offers hope. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1378:There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1379:He also had a kind of helpless politeness, which I took advantage of. He was quite incapable of refusing a direct request, and so, because I asked him to, he invited me to several parties during the month I stayed in Hemgogn. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1380:It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1381:There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1382:don’t know if our life has a purpose and I don’t see that it matters. What does matter is that we’re a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1383:I am without a face among men. I am not seen. I speak and am not heard. I come and am not welcomed. There is no place by the fire for me, nor food on the table for me, nor a bed made for me to lie in. Yet I still have my name. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1384:He laid his hands on her head, pushing back the hood. He began to speak. His voice was soft, and the words were in no tongue she had ever heard. The sound of them came into her heart like rain falling. She grew still to listen. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1385:It goes right back to the idea of the Power of Positive Thinking, which is so strong in America because it fits in so well with the Power of Commercial Advertising and with the Power of Wishful Thinking, aka the American Dream. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1386:I think what's happening is, it's all - fantasy, science fiction, ghosts, trolls, whatever - finally being called, being admitted to be literature. The way it used to be, before the Realists and the bloody Modernists took over. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1387:No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1388:The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly. It is full of barbed wire and the stumps of dead opinions. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1389:war is something human beings do and show no signs of stopping doing, and so it may be less important to condemn it or to justify it than to be able to perceive it as tragic. But once you take sides, you have lost that ability. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1390:What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair…Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1391:You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1392:Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1393:I cannot find anywhere in my life a time, or a kind of time, that is unoccupied. I am free, but my time is not. My time is fully and vitally occupied.... None of this is spare time. I can't spare it. ... I have no time to spare. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1394:It is a terrible thing, this kindness that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1395:The Yomeshta would say that man’s singularity is his divinity.’ ‘Lords of the Earth, yes. Other cults on other worlds have come to the same conclusion. They tend to be the cults of dynamic, aggressive, ecology-breaking cultures. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1396:But even the most unmissionary soul, unless he pretend he has no emotions, is sometimes faced with a choice between commission and omission. 'What are they doing?' abruptly becomes, 'What are we doing?' and then, 'What must I do? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1397:He listened to the radio, but it would not listen to him. He was all alone, and nothing seemed to be real in solitude. He needed somebody, anybody, to talk to, he had to tell them what he felt so that he knew if he felt anything. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1398:It was not in Raj Lyubov's nature to think, "What can I do?" Character and training disposed him not to interfere in other men's business. His job was to find out what they did, and his inclination was to let them go on doing it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1399:The nod of a head is such a small thing, it can mean so little, yet it is the gesture of assent that allows, that makes to be. The nod is the gesture of power, the yes. The numen, the presence of the sacred, is called by its name ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1400:the vehicle you arrived on, locked up where we can’t see it, would it be possible, as suggested, for you to bring down your . . . Star Ship? What do you call it? Ai: Star Ship is a good name, sir. Alshel: Oh? What do you call it? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1401:What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair...Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1402:And in four years the first entirely sleepless babies were born. (Millions of bleary-eyed young parents might dispute that statement; but the usual baby does go to sleep, after all, just about the time its parents have to get up.) ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1403:Having replaced instinct with language, society, and culture, we are the only species that depends on teaching and learning. We aren’t human without them. In them is true power. But are they the occupations of the rich and mighty? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1404:Life rises out of death, death rises out of life, in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1405:Neither anger nor hope served any purpose. Nor grief. It was not the time for grief yet. Rekam was here with them, and they would delight in him as long as he was here. As long as his life. He is my great gift. You do hold my joy. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1406:The nod of a head is such a small thing, it can mean so little, yet it is the gesture of assent that allows, that makes to be. The nod is the gesture of power, the yes. The numen. the presence of the sacred, is called by its name. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1407:... it was joy they were both after - the completeness of being. If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1408:Seen rightly, any situation, even a chaos or a trap would come clear and lead of itself to its one proper outcome: for there is in the long run no disharmony, only misunderstanding, no chance or mischance but only the ignorant eye. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1409:The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1410:the Old Powers of earth are not for men to use. They were never given into our hands, and in our hands they work only ruin. Ill means, ill end. I was not drawn here, but driven here, and the force that drove me works to my undoing. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1411:There’s a point, around age twenty,” Bedap said, “when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.” “Or at least accept them with resignation,” said Shevek. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1412:To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1413:In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's lore, and the first lesson and the last of all that lore was this: Heal the wound and cure the illness, but let the dying spirit go. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1414:The art of one's own time tends to be formidable . . . because we have to learn how and where to take hold of it, what response is being asked of us, before we can get involved. It's truly new, and therefore truly a bit frightening. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1415:Apollo, the god of light, of reason, of proportion, harmony, number - Apollo blinds those who press too close in worship. Don't look straight at the sun. Go into a dark bar for a bit and have a beer with Dionysis, every now and then. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1416:He saw time turn back upon itself, a river flowing upward to the spring. He held the contemporaneity of two moments in his left and right hands; as he moved them apart he smiled to see the moments separate like dividing soap bubbles. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1417:La luz es la mano de la izquierda de la oscuridad,
y la oscuridad es la mano derecha de la luz.
Las dos son una, vida y muerte, juntas
como amantes en kémmer,
como manos unidas,
como el término y el camino (p. 256). ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1418:We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1419:We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1420:..all I understand about living is having your work to do, and being able to do it. That's the pleasure, and the glory, and all. And if you can't do the work, or it's taken from you, then what's any good? You have to have something... ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1421:A woman's a different thing entirely. Who knows where a woman begins and ends? Listen, mistress, I have roots, I have roots deeper than this island.
Deeper than the sea, older than the raising of the lands. I go back into the dark. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1422:Partnership was a voluntarily constituted federation like any other. So long as it worked, it worked, and if it didn’t work it stopped being. It was not an institution but a function. It had no sanction but that of private conscience. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1423:prophecies. Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1424:The interplay of the aesthetic with the erotic is complex. The peacock's tail is beautiful to us, sexy to the peahen. Beauty and sexual attractiveness overlap, coincide. They may be deeply related. I think they should not be confused. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1425:The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1426:Who would be an artist if they did not believe that that happens? If they did not know it happens, because they have felt the god within them use their tongue, their hands? Maybe only once, once in their lives. But once is enough. Nor ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1427:If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1428:Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of those two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1429:The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1430:When we're done with it, we may find—if it's a good novel—that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having meet a new face, crossed a street we've never crossed before. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1431:Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1432:A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1433:Art is not a horse race. Literature is not the Olympics. The hell with The Great American Novel. We have all the great novels we need right now—and right now some man or woman is writing a new one we won’t know we needed till we read it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1434:-No, no hablo del amor, cuando me refiero al patriotismo. Hablo del miedo. El miedo del otro. Y las expresiones de ese miedo son políticas, no poéticas: odio, rivalidad, agresión. Crece en nosotros, ese miedo crece en nosotros año a año. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1435:We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1436:He liked the way she began her fierce, scornful sentences so often with a weak, conciliatory 'well.' She cut the ground out from under them before they ever got going, let them hang unsupported in the void. She had courage, great courage. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1437:If I had to pick a hero, it would be Charles Darwin--the size of his mind, which included all that scientific curiosity and knowledge seeking, and the ability to put it all together. There is a genuine spirituality about Darwin's thinking. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1438:I must go where I am bound to go, and turn my back on the bright shores. I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1439:Time says “Let there be”
every moment and instantly
there is space and the radiance
of each bright galaxy.
And eyes beholding radiance.
And the gnats’ flickering dance.
And the seas’ expanse.
And death, and chance. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1440:Todos tenemos que aprender a inventarnos una vida, crearla, imaginarla. Necesitamos que nos enseñen esas capacidades; necesitamos guías que nos muestren cómo hacerlo. Si no lo hacemos nuestras vidas acaban siendo controladas por los demás. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1441:Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1442:To say that an Orgota government fell means, of course, only that one group of Commensals replaced another group of Commensals in the controlling offices of the Thirty-Three. Some shadows got shorter and some longer, as they say in Karhide. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1443:We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1444:What books didn’t influence me? If only someone would ask that! I’ve been waiting for years to answer it. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, I will say, had absolutely no influence on me except to cause hours of incredulous boredom. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1445:As they say in Ekumenical School, when action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. I was not sleepy, yet. I would go east to the Fastnesses, and gather information from the Foretellers, perhaps. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1446: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. He talked a great deal about Truth also, for he was, he said, “cutting down beneath the veneer of civilization. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1447:I never know the heron as it flies at first. What is the slow, wide-winged figure in the sky? Then I see it, like a word in a foreign language, like seeing one’s own name written in a strange alphabet and recognizing it, I say it: the heron. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1448:In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1449:I, who am old, who have done what I must do, who stand in the daylight facing my own death, the end of all possibility, I know that there is only one power that is real and worth the having. And that is the power, not to take, but to accept. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1450:The tree said in its rooted being, “All my leaves are seen, but one, this one in the darkness cast by all the others. This one leaf I keep secret to myself. Who will see it in the darkness of my leaves? And who will count the number of them? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1451:What are we so afraid of? Why don't we let 'em tell us we're afraid? What is it they're afraid of?" She picked up the stocking she had been darning, turned it in her hands, was silent awhile; finally she said, "What are they afraid of us for? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1452:And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1453:Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life. . . . --UKL, 2016 ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1454:The sun itself was hidden, but there was a glitter on the horizon, almost like the dazzle of the crystal walls of the Undertomb, a kind of joyous shimmering off on the edge of the world.
"What is that?' the girl said, and he: "The sea. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,#NFDB
1455:Contrast J. D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. The author adopts the childish view of adults as inhumanly powerful and uncomprehending, and never goes beyond it; and so his novel, published for adults, is better appreciated by ten-year-olds. The ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1456:My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1457:Oh, you're here already," she said, taken by surprise and feeling unready, incompetent, old, as she always felt with other people. Alone, she only felt old when she was overtired or ill. Maybe living alone was the right thing for her after all. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1458:She had never been herself with other people, had always felt a falsity in her relationships with them; she had never known who she was at all, except sometimes for a moment in meditation, when her I am became It is, and she breathed the stars. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1459:The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1460:But I, who am old, who have done what I must do, who stand in the daylight facing my own death, the end of all possibility, I know that there is only one power that is real and worth the having. And that is the power, not to take, but to accept. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1461:Enlades ve Gont gibi sihirbazı bol ülkelerde, yağmur bulutlarının bir tılsımdan bir tılsıma ilerleyerek, sonunda yükünü huzur içinde denize boşaltıncaya kadar, yavaş yavaş bir yandan bir yana, bir yerden bir yere hareket ettiğini görebilirsiniz. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1462:I go on writing in both respectable and despised genres because I respect them all, rejoice in their differences, and reject only the prejudice and ignorance that dismisses any book, unread, as not worth reading." -- "On Despising Genres," essay ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1463:Even among writers, not all seem to share my enjoyment of pursuing a word or a usage through the dictionaries and the wastebaskets. If I start doing it aloud in public, some of them look at me with horror or compassion, or try to go quietly away. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1464:No, I don’t mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. It grows in us, that fear. It grows in us year by year. We’ve followed our road too far. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1465:The writer Moe Bowstern gave me a slogan I cherish: “Subversion Through Friendliness.” It looks silly till you think about it. It bears considerable thinking about. Subversion through terror, shock, pain is easy—instant gratification, as it were. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1466:Sacrifice might be demanded of the individual, but never compromise: for though only the society could give security and stability, only the individual, the person, had the power of moral choice—the power of change, the essential function of life. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1467:Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1468:I share your modest enthusiasm for Austen’s Mansfield Park. I didn’t like the movie, though. Do you like any of the recent Jane movies? Oh, as movies, sure. Not as Austen. There is no way I can dislike Alan whatshisname with the voice like a cello. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1469:Odo had not tried to renew the basic relationships of music, when she renewed the relationships of men. She had always respected the necessary. The Settlers of Anarres had left the laws of man behind them, but had brought the laws of harmony along. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1470:Wells imagined both dark and bright futures because his creed allowed both while promising neither, and because the eighty years of his life were years of immense intellectual and technological accomplishment and appalling violence and destruction. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1471:. . . all delight being in the present and its past, all truth too, and all fidelity in the word, the flesh, the present moment: for the future, however you look at it, contains only one sure thing and that is death. But the moment is unpredictable. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1472:And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1473:Below the village the pastures and plowlands of the Vale slope downward level below level towards the sea, and other towns lie on the bends of the River Ar; above the village only forest rises ridge behind ridge to the stone and snow of the heights. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1474:But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1475:The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1476:Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1477:Since he was very young he had known that in certain ways he was unlike anyone else he knew. For a child the consciousness of such difference is very painful, since, having done nothing yet and being incapable of doing anything, he cannot justify it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1478:To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences and they can just be rich and famous. Their job is to write. Some really don't realize that. And you can't write unless you read. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1479:When we pass a log truck on the roads of Oregon, I can't help but see what they carry as corpses, bodies that were living and are dead. I think of how we owe the air we breathe to the trees, the ferns, the grasses - the quiet people who eat sunlight. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1480:Women are a very recent invention. I predate the invention of women by decades. Well, if you insist on pedantic accuracy, women have been invented several times in widely varying localities, but the inventors just didn’t know how to sell the product. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1481:Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1482:A people that doesn't live at the center of the world, as defined and described by its poets and storytellers, is in a bad way. The center of the world is where you live fully, where you know how things are done, how things are done rightly, done well. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1483:But I can't say that gratitude was my motive for infringing on the Law of Cultural Embargo. I was not paying my debt to him. Such debts remain owing. Estraven and I had simply arrived at the point where we shared whatever we had that was worth sharing. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1484:But it is not only there, not in death only that men take their names. Those who can be most hurt the most vulnerable; those who have given love and do not take it back, they can speak each other's names. The faithful-hearted, the givers of life. . . . ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1485:Large, general questions about meaning, etc., can only be answered with generalities, which make me uncomfortable, because it is so hard to be honest when you generalize. If you skip over all the details, how can you tell if you’re being honest or not? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1486:Our entire pattern of socio-sexual interaction is nonexistent here. They cannot play the game. They do not see one another as men or women. This is almost impossible for our imagination to accept. What is the first question we ask about a newborn baby? ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1487:It is not until an act occurs within the landscape of the past and future that it is a human act. Loyalty, which asserts the continuity of past and future, binding time into a whole, is the root of human strength; there is no good to be done without it. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1488:My mother was mad, but I was not. My father was old, but I was young. Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn’t be given, wouldn’t be taken, but chose my man and my fate. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1489:Orr was not a fast reasoner. In fact, he was not a reasoner. He arrived at ideas the slow way, never skating over the clear, hard ice of logic, nor soaring on the slipstreams of imagination, but slogging, plodding along on the heavy ground of existence. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1490:sitting at the table for six or eight hours straight. When he got up he would lurch with fatigue, his hands shook, and he was scarcely coherent. The usage the creator spirit gives its vessels is rough, it wears them out, discards them, gets a new model. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1491:As often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the force that moves the stars and the waves of the sea and couples the animals in the fields in spring, the power of passion, the light of the evening star. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1492:My mother was mad, but I was not. My father was old, but I was young. Like Spartan Hellen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn't be given, wouldn't be taken, but chose my man and my fate. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1493:The idea that only belief sees the world as wonderful, and the "cold hard facts" of science take all the color and wonder out of it, the idea that scientific understanding automatically threatens and weakens religious or spiritual insight, is just hokum. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1494:You won’t be running marathons and lifting weights. You may have trouble getting up the stairs. You may have trouble just getting out of bed. You may have trouble getting used to hurting all the time. And it isn’t likely to get better as the years go on. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1495:All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. Without them, our lives get made up for us by other people. Human beings have always joined in groups to imagine ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1496:The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1497:They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they (...) become dust and bone, and their ghosts whine on the wind a little while till the wind blows them away. They do not have immortal souls. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1498:Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon in order to feel what I feel standing on the third step of a stepladder trying to put millet in the bird feeder. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1499:The weather bureau will tell you what next Tuesday will be like, and the Rand Corporation will tell you what the twenty-first century will be like. I don’t recommend that you turn to the writers of fiction for such information. It’s none of their business. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1500:Emshwiller’s like a wild mixture of Italo Calvino (intellectual games) and Grace Paley (perfect honesty) and Fay Weldon (outrageous wit) and Jorge Luis Borges (pure luminosity), but no—her voice is perfectly her own. She isn’t like anybody. She’s different. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
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