Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

» It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

» I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

» If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

» Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

» It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

» The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

» There are no right answers to wrong questions.

» The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

» The creative adult is the child who has survived.

» To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

» Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

» My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

» The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

» 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.

» Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

» When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

» He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

» Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

» There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

» We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

» It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

» To oppose something is to maintain it.

» What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

» Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

» What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

» I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

» It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

» The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

» The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

» 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.

» 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.

» If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

» If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

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