Ursula K. Le Guin quotes - page 13

... much of CS Lewis simply Christian apologia, full of hatred and contempt for people who didn't agree. The division into good and evil was different from Tolkien, where evil beings are only a metaphor for the evil in our lives; he never casts people into the outer darkness as Lewis enjoyed doing. (Ursula K. Le Guin)
I made a conscious choice to make most of my characters people of colour. I've had endless battles with cover departments. Gradually the people on the books are darkening - it's taken that long. View quote
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The shadow is on the other side of our psyche, the dark brother of the conscious mind. It is Cain, Caliban, Frankenstein's monster, Mr. Hyde. It is Virgil who gioded Dante through hell, Gilgamesh's friend Enkidu, Frodo's enemy Gollum. It is the Doppleganger. It is Mowgli's Grey Brother; the wereworlf; the wolf, the bear, the tiger of a thousand folktales; it is the serpent, Lucifer. The shadow stands on the threshold between conscious and unconscious mind, and we meet it in our dreams, as sister, brother, friend, beast, monster, enemy, guide. View quote
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not interested in space conquest or wiring, but using the form as a wonderful box of fixed metaphors you can play with endlessly, like a musician with a sonata. View quote
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True myth may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. View quote
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All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. View quote
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It is a position, a posture in the dance. View quote
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Once you have seen the larger patttern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole. View quote
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The name of our beautiful reward is not profit. Its name is freedom. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is a part of the whole knowledge. View quote
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We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live. View quote
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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. View quote
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I have never found anywhere, in the domain of art, that you don't have to walk to. View quote
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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, and that if these faculties are encouraged in youth they will act well and wisely in the adult, but that if they are repressed and denied in the child they will stunt and cripple the adult personality. And finally, I believe that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination: so that it is our pleasant duty ... to encourage that faculty of imagination in our children, to encourage it to grow freely, to flourish like the green bay tree, by giving it the best, absolutely the best and purest, nourishment that it can absorb. View quote
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Le Guin is a quintessentially American writer, for whom the quest for the Peaceable Kingdom is ongoing. View quote
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A king has soldiers, servants, messengers, lieutenants. He governs through his servants. Where are the servants of this-Anti-king? View quote
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What harm have the trees done them? View quote
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Do you not understand that I want to give this to you-and to Hain and the other worlds-and to the countries of Urras? But to you all! So that one of you cannot use it, as A-Io wants to do, to get power over the others, to get richer or to win more wars. So that you cannot use the truth for your private profit, but only for the common good. View quote
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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)
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. View quote
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development. View quote
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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write. View quote
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We read books to find out who we are. View quote
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