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If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane trip. But what if there's five hours between your arrival and your connecting flight, or your plane is late arriving and you've missed your connection, or the connecting flight is late, or the staff of another airline are striking for a wage-benefit package and the government has not yet ordered out the Nat..
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Our daily life in the auntring was repetitive. On the ship, later, I learned that people who live in artificially complicated situations call such a life 'simple.' I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a planet looks smooth, from orbit.
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The idea that only belief sees the world as wonderful, and the "cold hard facts" of science take all the color and wonder out of it, the idea that scientific understanding automatically threatens and weakens religious or spiritual insight, is just hokum."
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Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?" From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?"
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The First Mobile, if one is sent, must be warned that unless he is very self-assured, or senile, his pride will suffer. A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. On Winter they will not exist. One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.
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humanism
science-fiction
gender
leftism
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An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet or a soap-works. Partnership was a voluntarily constituted federation like any other. So long as it worked, it worked, and if it didn't work it stopped being. It was not an institution but a function. It had no sanction but that of private conscience.
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relationships
women
politics
love
moraily
property
sci-fi
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Back then, in 1967, wizards were all, more or less, Merlin and Gandalf. Old men, peaked hats, white beards. But this was to be a book for young people. Well, Merlin and Gandalf must have been young once, right? And when they were young, when they were fool kids, how did they learn to be wizards? And there was my book.
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A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media, the mechanical slaughter of endless battalions of black-clad, yellow-toothed, red-eyed demons. War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to "a war against" whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical com..
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'But I might ask you as profitably why you've never seen fit to invent airborne vehicles? One small stolen airplane would have spared you and me a great deal of difficulty!' 'How would it ever occur to a sane man that he could fly?' Estraven said sternly. It was a fair response, on a world where no living thing is winged.
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If memory remains sound and the thinking mind retains its vigor, an old intelligence may have extraordinary breadth and depth of understanding.
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Fiction is really often much more useful than lived experience; it takes much less time, costs nothing (from the library), and it comes in a manageable, orderly form. You can understand it. Experience just steamrollers over you and you begin to see what happened only years and years later, if ever. Fiction is much better than reality at providing factual, psychological, and moral understanding.
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reality
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Never fear. It is much easier for men to act than to refrain from acting. We will continue to do good and to do evil. But if there were a king over us all again and he sought the counsel of a mage, as in the days of old, and I were that mage, I would say to him: My lord, do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in a..
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But because she was not a girl now, she was not awed, but only wondered at how men ordered their world into this dance of masks, and how easily a woman might learn to dance it.
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Hold fast to the one noble thing.
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When I was young I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.' How
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He knew that insofar as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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Bir hirsiz yaratmak icin bir sahip yaratin; suc yaratmak istiyorsaniz, yasalar koyun.
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There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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Thus they both set a fatal trap for the believer: if you believe in God you can't believe in evolution, and vice versa. But this is rather like saying if you believe in Tuesday you can't believe in artichokes.
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itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.
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The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?
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It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed.
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How would it ever occur to a sane man that he could fly?
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Olumden korkuyordum. Olumden o kadar korkuyordum ki belki de oluyorsunuzdur diye, size bakamiyordum bile. Benim icin olmemenin, eger bulabilirsem, bir... bir yolu oldugundan baska hicbir sey dusunemiyordum. Fakat, sanki buyuk bir yara varmis da kaniyormus gibi, -sizinki gibi- hayat surekli akip gidiyordu. Fakat her seyde bu vardi. Ve ben hicbir sey, hicbir sey yapmadim; sadece olmenin korkusundan saklanmaya calistim.
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When I was young I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.
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Would you walk away from Omelas?
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courage
decision-makingsion
the-ones-we-leave-behind
strength-of-character
strength-and-courage
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In a State, even a democracy, where power is hierarchic, how can you prevent the storage of information from becoming yet another source of power to the powerful--another piston in the great machine?
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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He seemed not to know the uses of silence.
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Despite what some adults seem to think, teenagers are fully human.
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Of course it happened. An effective dream is a reality, Dr. Haber.
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The story is the way the story is told.
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But we're all walking in the night, now, on ground we don't know. When the day comes we may know where we are, or we may not.
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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An owl is mostly air.
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out-here
steens-mountain
owls
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A medida que un hombre adquiere mas poder y sabiduria, se le estrecha el camino, hasta que al fin no elige, y hace pura y simplemente lo que tiene que hacer...
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fantasy
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Where will you sleep?" he inquired, sitting down heavily on the bed. "No where," the Alien replied, its toneless voice dividing the word into two equally significant wholes."
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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The weather bureau will tell you what next Tuesday will be like, and the Rand Corporation will tell you what the twenty-first century will be like. I don't recommend that you turn to the writers of fiction for such information. It's none of their business.
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But Vetch, who had not done so lightly, said, "Her name is safe with you as mine is. And, besides, you knew it without my telling you . . ."
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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I will tell my tale as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that truth is a matter of the imagination.
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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I'd like a poster showing two old people with stooped backs and arthritic hands and time-worn faces sitting talking, deep, deep in conversation. And the slogan would be "Old Age Is Not for the Young."
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Heathen" is merely a word for somebody who knows a different sacredness than you know"
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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There is no more subversive act than the act of writing from a woman's experience of life using a woman's judgment. "Prospects for Women in Writing" 1986"
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writing
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b223646
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A key is a little thing next to the door that it opens. If you lose the key, the door may never be unlocked.
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Only what is mortal bears life, Arren. Only in death is there rebirth. The Balance is not a stillness. it is a movement--an eternal becoming.
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The child stared at her or at nothing, trying to breathe, and trying again to breathe, and trying again to breathe.
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pain
suffering
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