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Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1929
Born: October 21
Died: 2018
Died: January 22
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A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.
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Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst.
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We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
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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.
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What good is power when you're too wise to use it?
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The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper.
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The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.
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To be whole is to be part true voyage is return.
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Almost everything is double like that for adolescents their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken by the world. They gyre and fall they see through everything, and are blind.
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No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.
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Very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.
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If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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Even a poet cannot get everything right.
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Alone, no one wins freedom.
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We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.
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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.
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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
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