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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 79b29f0 | Women are a very recent invention. I predate the invention of women by decades. Well, if you insist on pedantic accuracy, women have been invented several times in widely varying localities, but the inventors just didn't know how to sell the product. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| b7936d6 | The Sun Going South In late sunshine I wander troubled. Restless I wander in autumn sunlight. Too many changes, partings, and deaths. Doors have closed that were always open. Trees that held the sky up are cut down. So much that I alone remember! This creek runs dry among its stones. Souls of the dead, come drink this water! Come into this side valley with me, | end troubled ursula-k-le-guin | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 15c7e34 | 31 against war Weapons are unhappy tools, not chosen by thoughtful people, to be used only when there is no choice, and with a calm, still mind, without enjoyment. To enjoy using weapons is to enjoy killing people, | lao tzu trans ursula k le guin | ||
| 867a299 | To light a candle is to cast a shadow . . . | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 16bc00a | They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned. | science | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 1e7977b | You have great power inborn in you, and you used that power wrongly, to work a spell over which you had no control, not knowing how that spell affects the balance of light and dark, life and death, good and evil. And you were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin? You summoned a spirit from the dead, but with it came one of the Powers of unlife. Uncalled it came from a place where there are no names. Ev.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 204274e | Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 93b8b81 | And so, because he won't let himself be hurt, he does wrong to those he loves best. And then he sees that, and after all, it hurts him. | self-protection | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 7f860d1 | To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game...speak the truth and hear the truth. | science-fiction | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 619dec2 | cats have no guilt and very little shame. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| fb882a3 | There is a certain bleakness in finding hope where one expected certainty. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 988e496 | There was room for them. A great deal of Italy, back then, was forest. Where man goes, trees die; or, to paraphrase Tacitus, we make a desert and call it progress. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 5673132 | Page 15, paperback version by Virago Press 1997: ... Let me ask you this, Mr Ai: do you know, by your own experience, what patriotism is?" 'No', I said, shaken by the force of the intese personality suddenly turning itself wholly upon me. 'I don't think I do. If by patriotism you don't mean the love of one`s homeland, for that I do know.' 'No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressio.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| b23795f | Kardes bile rahatlatamaz insani kotu saatte, karanlikta, duvarin dibinde. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 2677d12 | Wealth, status, pride, are their own ruin. To do good, work well, and lie low is the way of the blessing. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 930b06a | He was clearly aware of only one thing, his own total isolation. The world had fallen out from under him, and he was left alone. To die is to lose the self and rejoin the rest. He had kept himself, and lost the rest. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 5053550 | Actually, I don't exactly have expectations. I have hopes, and fears. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| fa3a9a7 | How It Seems To Me In the vast abyss before time, self is not, and soul commingles with mist, and rock, and light. In time, soul brings the misty self to be. Then slow time hardens self to stone while ever lightening the soul, till soul can loose its hold of self and both are free and can return to vastness and dissolve in light, the long light after time. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| d454b4b | Bucket I feel so dreamy dreamy lazy, crazy sleepy like I want to be there in the doorway, the doorway or the porch corner be sitting, be empty notdoing not going an old bucket left there in the porch corner is like I am an old empty bucket somebody left there. | poem sleepy ursula-k-le-guin | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 37a0f19 | Our souls are old, often used before. The knife outlasts the hand that holds it. | souls ursula-k-le-guin | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| fd7ab99 | Somewhere in the notes Estraven wrote during our trek across the Gobrin Ice he wonders why his companion is ashamed to cry. I could have told him even then that it was not shame so much as fear. Now I went on through the Sinoth Valley, through the evening of his death, into the cold country that lies beyond fear. There I found you can weep all you like, but there's no good in it. | mourning | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| a8221ff | Large, general questions about meaning, etc., can only be answered with generalities, which make me uncomfortable, because it is so hard to be honest when you generalize. If you skip over all the details, how can you tell if you're being honest or not? | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 5719693 | Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial. | joy war | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| c741480 | Positive thinking founded on denial may not be so great. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| f75182a | With the myth of the State out of the way, the real mutuality and reciprocity of society and individual became clear. Sacrifice might be demanded of the individual, but never compromise: for though only the society could give security and stability, only the individual, the person, had the power of moral choice - the power of change, the essential function of life. The Odonian society was conceived as a permanent revolution, and revolution .. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| c965e9d | But as we did without clergy, let us do without soldiers. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| b1ec41f | For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it's true. Children know that. Adults know it too and that's precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living. They are afraid of dragons because they are afraid of freedom. | le-guin ursula-k-le-guin | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| e46e7ba | Can women operate as women in a male institution without becoming imitation men? | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| fa43874 | Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying. 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. All they're trying to do is tell you what th.. | writing writing-process | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 9ce6ed0 | talking about the "meaning" of a story, we need to be careful not to diminish it, impoverish it. A story can say different things to different people. It may have no definitive reading. And a reader may find a meaning in it that the writer never intended, never imagined, yet recognizes at once as valid." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| e6a2f85 | Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry." "Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are kind." | compassion fantasy friendship kids wonder | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 3fe58cf | There is no light.. for those who do not know darkness.. Live on and endure the shadows, Takezo.. And brightness shall come your way. | Takehiko Inoue | ||
| 95aa5ef | Lightning shall be slow to my hasting. | speed urgency | E.R. Eddison | |
| e7c0afe | Us, little children of the dust, children of a day, who with so many burdens do burden us with taking thought and with fears and desires and devious schemings of the mind, so that we wax old before our time and fall weary ere the brief day be spent and one reaping-hook gather us home at last for all our pains. | humanity life | E.R. Eddison | |
| a122092 | But because day at her dawning hours hath so bewitched me, must I yet love her when glutted with triumph she settles to garish noon? . . . Who dares call me turncoat, who do but follow now as I have followed this rare wisdom all my days: to love the sunrise and the sundown and the morning and the evening star. | loyalty | E.R. Eddison | |
| 792c910 | Every time I played Isumi he made calm deliberate moves regardless of how the game was going. If he can maintain that in match play he'll always have a vital edge going in. | Yumi Hotta | ||
| 2ddf0d9 | An offer indeed," said Lord Brandoch Daha; "if it be not in mockery. Say it loud, that my folk may hear." Corund did so, and the Demons heard it from the walls of the burg. Lord Brandoch Daha stood somewhat apart from Juss and Spitfire and their guard. "Libel it me out," he said. "For good as I now must deem thy word, thine hand and seal must I have to show my followers ere they consent with me in such a thing." "Write thou," said Corund to.. | honour | E.R. Eddison | |
| 38b17f5 | The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first one. | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| 8cdf8e7 | The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| 9c1e627 | The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. The only question is whether to plan in advance to build a throwaway, or to promise to deliver the throwaway to customers. | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| 7b7aa2d | No world exists without sacrifice. Do we not realize that we call this hell where ash floats upon a sea of blood, the world | Tite Kubo | ||
| 39140fe | We should not shed tears. That is a surrender of the body to the heart. It is only proof That we are beings that do not know What to do with our hearts | heart kuchiki-byakuya surrender | Tite Kubo | |
| bc98b03 | The two men sat there together, in the kind of silence that's not empty because it has the thoughts of two longtime friends to fill it. | Suzette Haden Elgin | ||
| 925fffa | You know that dejection that comes upon you when you realize that the person you're talking to might as well be from Jupiter, for all the chance you have of making them get what you're saying? I hate that. | Julie Powell |