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Ursula K Le Guin Quotes

Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life Picture Quote #1

Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development Picture Quote #1

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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope Picture Quote #1

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good Picture Quote #1

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She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It’s the only justification for obedience, Ged observed Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I’ve got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin’s not easy Picture Quote #1

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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants 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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

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Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes) It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes) The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It’s the only justification for obedience, Ged observed (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) I’ve got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin’s not easy (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes) The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself (Ursula K Le Guin Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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