Ursula K. Le Guin quotes - page 4

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)
One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King. View quote
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Grow up. Grow up. Time to grow up. You're here now. We're working on physics here, not religion. Drop the mysticism and grow up. View quote
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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. View quote
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One voice, speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies, given time; plenty of time. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Statesmen remember things selectively. View quote
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There's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was. View quote
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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. View quote
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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means. (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it. View quote
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended. View quote
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A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. On Winter they will not exist. One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience. View quote
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Men who fight wars in Winter don't live till Spring. View quote
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Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god? View quote
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The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate. View quote
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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. View quote
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Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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Ignorant power is a bane! View quote
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Greed puts out the sun. View quote
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The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness. View quote
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