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Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

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American Writer October 21, 1929

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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
In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good unless you can see a symbol hiding, like a scared gerbil, under every page. And in many creative writing course the little beasts multiply, the place swarms with them. What does this Mean? What does that Symbolize? What is the Underlying Mythos? Kids come lurching out of such courses with a brain full of gerbils. And they sit down and write a lot of empty... Ursula K. Le Guin
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
OfferingI made a poem goingto sleep last night, wokein sunlight, it was clean forgotten. If it was any good, godsof the great darknesswhere sleep goes and fartherdeath goes, you not named, then as true offeringaccept it. Ursula K. Le Guin
And I saw then again, and for good, what I had always been afraid to see, and had pretended not to see in him: that he was a woman as well as a man. Any need to explain the sources of that fear vanished with the fear; what I was left with was, at last, acceptance of him as he was. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "What good is power when you're too wise to use it?"
What good is power when you're too wise to use it? Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to..."
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
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords."
Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords. Ursula K. Le Guin
They knew that their anarchism was the product of a very high civilization, of a complex diversified culture, of a stable economy and a highly industrialized technology that could maintain high production and rapid transportation of goods. However vast the distances separating settlements, they held to the ideal of complex organicism. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the..."
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the..."
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. Ursula K. Le Guin
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

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