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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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artists
pain
happiness
evil
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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. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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inspirational
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Ursula K. LeGuin |
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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sleep
information
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Ursula K. LeGuin |
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This is. And thou art. 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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Ursula K. LeGuin |
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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 any other way.
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Ursula K. LeGuin |
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A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.
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Ursula K. LeGuin |
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A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.
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science
truth
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Ursula K. LeGuin |
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Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.
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writing
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Ursula K. LeGuin |
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I'll make my report 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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science-fiction
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Ursula K. LeGuin |
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If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.
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Ursula K. LeGuin |
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For magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing.
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magic
fantasy
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