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Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Ursula K. Le Guin quotes

American Writer October 21, 1929

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She waved through the dirty window from her seat as the train started up. I did not do the ape act. I stood there and did the human act as well as possible. Ursula K. Le Guin
I tried to think about what he had asked me to do, to step so far beyond myself. I found it difficult to think about. It was as if it hung over me, this huge choice I must make, this future I could not imagine. Ursula K. Le Guin
Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "a book is a box of words until you open it."
a book is a box of words until you open it. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the..."
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
I never thought before," said Tirin unruffled, "of the fact that there are people sitting on a hill, up there, on Urras, looking at Anarres, at us, and saying, 'Look there's the Moon.' Our earth is their Moon; our Moon is their earth."Where, then, is Truth?" declaimed Bedap, and yawned."In the hill one happens to be sitting on," said Tirin. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without..."
To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. Ursula K. Le Guin
There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real. It was important. For seven generations there had been nothing in the world more important than that wall. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it... Ursula K. Le Guin
It is very seldom,” the young man said at last, “that dragons ask to do men favours.” “But it is very common,” said the dragon, “for cats to play with mice before they kill them. Ursula K. Le Guin
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "Go to bed; tired is stupid."
Go to bed; tired is stupid. Ursula K. Le Guin
If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home. Ursula K. Le Guin
What is evil?" asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them both. "A web we men weave." Ged answered. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you..."
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me. Ursula K. Le Guin

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