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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c356927 | But I liked the writing better. I could make it look beautiful. I could keep it. The spoken words just went out like the wind, and you always had to say them all over again to keep them alive. But the writing stayed, and you could learn to make it better. More beautiful. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 515c08d |
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choice life volition | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 2c17fab | When all ways are lost the way is clear. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 0eb9152 | They knew that their anarchism was the product of a very high civilization, of a complex diversified culture, of a stable economy and a highly industrialized technology that could maintain high production and rapid transportation of goods. However vast the distances separating settlements, they held to the ideal of complex organicism. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| fb0e67b | Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the book, this story ... ? Tell me what it Means. But that is not my job, honey. That's your job. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 201f140 | Praise God from whom all blessings flow, including good-natured men. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 711606d | Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. | peace primitiveness society war | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 76d5a59 | The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written (or rewritten for children) in England and northern Europe. The principal characters were men. If the story was heroic, the hero was a white man; most dark-skinned people were inferior or evil. If there was a woman in the story, she was a passive object of desire and rescue (a beautiful blond princess); active women (dark, witches) usually caused destruction or tragedy. Anyway, t.. | bigotry fantasy feminism tradition | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 5b60c9f | talk is an art and a pleasure, not a matter of mere use and need. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 7f23522 | But even the most unmissionary soul, unless he pretend he has no emotions, is sometimes faced with a choice between commission and omission. 'What are they doing?' abruptly becomes, 'What are we doing?' and then, 'What must I do? | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 7db35aa | The most winning characteristic of the rather harsh Cetian temperament was curiosity, inopportune, and inexhaustible curiosity; Cetians died eagerly, curious as to what came next. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 5a1f85d | He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God. | irony science-fiction | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| fc56a37 | 'Banished men should never speak their native tongue; it comes bitter from their mouth. And this language suits a traitor better, I think; drips off one's teeth like sugar-syrup.' | languages | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| d1f8536 | A person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his interrelationships; and morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 73240fa | He talked a great deal about Truth also, for he was, he said, "cutting down beneath the veneer of civilization." It is a durable, ubiquitous, specious metaphor, that one about veneer (or paint, or pliofilm, or whatever) hiding the nobler reality beneath. It can conceal a dozen fallacies at once. One of the most dangerous is the implication that civilization, being artificial, is unnatural: that it is the opposite of primitiveness... Of cour.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| d111f6f | George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 231172f | Opinion all too often leaves no room for anything but itself. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 47dd257 | The beauty ideal is always a youthful one. This is partly simple realism. The young are beautiful. The whole lot of 'em. The older I get, the more clearly I see that and enjoy it. But it gets harder and harder to enjoy facing the mirror. Who is that old lady? Where is her waist? I got resigned, sort of, to losing my dark hair and getting all this limp grey stuff instead, but now am I going to lose even that and end up all pink scalp? I mean.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 1fc3a2b | Where does your soul go when you die in Hell? | melancholy | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 0f95a01 | So, looking back on the last four years, Shevek saw them not as wasted, but as part of the edifice that he and Takver were building with their lives. The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| f3518e5 | All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 2550d19 | An irrelevant and poignant sensation of pleasure rose in him, like a tree that grew up and flowered all in one moment with its roots in his loins and its flowers in his mind. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| ac55e5c | Old age generally involves pain and danger and inevitably ends in death. The acceptance of that takes courage. Courage deserves respect. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 781f80a | Critics and academics have been trying for forty years to bury the greatest work of imaginative fiction in English. They ignore it, they condescend to it, they stand in large groups with their backs to it - because they're afraid of it. They're afraid of dragons. They have Smaugophobia. "Oh those awful Orcs," they bleat, flocking after Edmund Wilson. They know if they acknowledge Tolkien they'll have to admit that fantasy can be literature,.. | fantasy-fiction literature | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| c7d9c93 | Can you walk the road your dream goes? Sometimes. Sometimes I am afraid to. Who is not. ... | road walking-the-dream | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 987b46c | In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell. | hell hell-on-earth purgatory | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| bf122a7 | I expect it will turn out that sexual intercourse is possible between Gethenian double-sexed and Hainish-norm one-sexed human beings, though such intercourse will inevitably be sterile. It remains to be proved; Estraven and I proved nothing except perhaps a rather subtler point. | love | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 6b9013d | Light is a power. A great power, by which we exist, but which exists beyond our needs, in itself. Sunlight and starlight are time, and time is light. In the sunlight, in the days and years, life is. In a dark place life may call upon the light, naming it. But usually when you see a wizard name or call upon some thing, some object to appear, that is not the same, he calls upon no power greater than himself, and what appears is an illusion on.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| ba293da | The life of every man is in the Center of Time, for all were seen in the seeing of Meshe, and are in his eye. We are the pupils of his Eye... Our doing is his Seeing: our being is his Knowing. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| dba18cb | I don't like making the rest of the world live in my dreams, but I certainly don't want to live in yours. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 7e999ef | In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest one to be sure. | hope inspirational life | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 2808bff | Question 14: "Are you living your secret desires?" Floored again. I finally didn't check Yes, Somewhat, or No, but wrote in "I have none, my desires are flagrant." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| d8db803 | A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government in earth, it would be a great joy to serve it. | government the-left-hand-of-darkness ursula-k-le-guin ursula-le-guin | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| b5fef98 | She could not have been born gray. Her color, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not an accident. Her anger, timidity, brashness, gentleness, all were elements of her mixed being, her mixed nature, dark and clear right through, like Baltic amber. She could not exist in the gray people's world. She had not been born. | individuality people women | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 33ebe79 | Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd. | iliteracy science-fition | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| f1c4ae9 | At this slower pace the journey took a couple of days, and I fought off a few minor threats along the way --griffins, carnivorous plants, giant serpents, hostile centaurs, that sort of thing, purely routine --and I was beginning to get bored when at last the dusky towers of Castle Roogna hove into view. | Piers Anthony | ||
| e954cef | Good leaders motivate others by their listening skills. We are to: avoid prejudicial first impressions; become less self-centered; withhold initial criticism; stay calm; listen with empathy; be active listeners; clarify what we hear; and recognize the healing power of listening. Then we are to act on what we hear | John C. Maxwell | ||
| ae98f6b | You don't really understand people until you hear their life story. If you know their stories, you grasp their history, their hurts, their hopes and aspirations. You put yourself in their shoes. And just by virtue of listening and remembering what's important to them, you communicate that you care and desire to add value. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 2a11d05 | When people respect you as a person, they admire you. When they respect you as a friend, they love you. When they respect you as a leader, they follow you. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 0ed3b0e | The goal of confrontation should be to help, not to humiliate. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| c553309 | You cannot change your life until you change something you do every day. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| d0631ca | The reality is that you will never get much done unless you go ahead and do it before you are ready. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 229c039 | Life is so simple when you're young, though of course that's not what it feels like to the young. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| cc1c78e | o pr gress verily thou art m mentous superc lossal hyperpr digious etc i kn w | E.E. Cummings |