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Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Ursula K. Le Guin quotes

American Writer October 21, 1929

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Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "Boris Pasternak said that poetry makes itself from the..."
Boris Pasternak said that poetry makes itself from the relationship between the sounds and the meanings of words. Ursula K. Le Guin
And he would watch the snow falling, thin and ceaseless, on the empty lands below the window, and feel the dull cold grow within him, till it seemed no feeling was left to him except a kind of weariness. Ursula K. Le Guin
The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness. Ursula K. Le Guin
The heavy work requiring muscle and the skilled work with crops and sheep was done by Ged, Shandy, and Tenar, while the two old men who had been there all their lives, his father's men took him about and told him how they managed it all, and truly believed they were managing it all, and shared their believe with him. Ursula K. Le Guin
For discipline is the channel in which our acts run strong and deep; where there is no direction, the deeds of men run shallow and wander and are wasted. Ursula K. Le Guin
Our entire pattern of socio-sexual interaction is nonexistent here. They cannot play the game. They do not see one another as men or women. This is almost impossible for our imagination to accept. What is the first question we ask about a newborn baby? 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
You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes? the walls, the walls! Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "If women had power what would men be but women who can't bear..."
If women had power what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can? Ursula K. Le Guin
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. 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
I suppose the Valley of the Na, in Always Coming Home, is where I think I'd most like to live; but that's partly because I did live there, all the summers of my childhood. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends..."
The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. Ursula K. Le Guin
When mind uses itself without the hands it runs the circle and may go too fast.... The hand that shapes the mind into clay or written word slows thought to the gait of things and lets it be subject to accident and time. Purity is on the edge of evil, they say. Ursula K. Le Guin
Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads and cities of fidelity: a landscape inhabitable by human beings. Ursula K. Le Guin

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