Tag: Ursula K. Le Guin
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I don’t teach writing classes anymore, and I’m really glad I don’t, because I would feel very strange about telling people, ‘Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.’
Ursula K. Le Guin
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I’ve got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin’s not easy.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
Ursula K. Le Guin