Ursula K Le Guin Quotes
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Authors & Writers“The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you.”
Ursula K. Le GuinQuotes
Authors & Writers“Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.”
Ursula K. Le GuinQuotes
Authors & Writers“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”
Ursula K. Le GuinQuotes
Authors & Writers“ I didn't see why everybody in heroic fantasy had to be white [...] It didn't even make sense. ”
Ursula K. Le GuinQuotes
Authors & Writers“ To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well. ”
Ursula K. Le GuinQuotes
Authors & Writers“ What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? ”
Ursula K. Le GuinQuotes
Authors & Writers“ What then are the uses of the imagination? The use of it is to give you pleasure and delight. ”
Ursula K. Le GuinQuotes
Authors & Writers“ As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. ”
Ursula K. Le GuinQuotes
Authors & Writers“ I doubt that imagination can be suppressed. ”
Ursula K. Le GuinQuotes
Authors & Writers“ When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life. ”
Ursula K. Le GuinQuotes
Authors & Writers“ The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself. ”
Ursula K. Le GuinQuotes
Authors & Writers“ No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars. ”
Ursula K. Le GuinQuotes
Authors & Writers“ Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. ”
Ursula K. Le GuinQuotes
Authors & Writers“ I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up...that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination. ”
Ursula K. Le GuinQuotes
Authors & Writers“ 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 GuinQuotes
Authors & Writers“ To hear, one must be silent. ”
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