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Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Ursula K. Le Guin quotes

American Writer October 21, 1929

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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
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
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "There are men right now who have never learned how to talk to..."
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
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not."
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not. Ursula K. Le Guin
... “Dangerous!” Vea laughed radiantly. “What an utterly marvellous compliment! Why am I dangerous, Shevek?” “Why, because you know that in the eyes of men you are a thing, a thing owned, bought, sold. And so you think only of tricking the owners, of getting revenge –”... Ursula K. Le Guin
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
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
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "He was born to be alone, a damned cold intellectual, an egoist."
He was born to be alone, a damned cold intellectual, an egoist. Ursula K. Le Guin
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
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
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I..."
I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep. Ursula K. Le Guin
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
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

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