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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 74ec19b | The old farfetchers' motto: Opinion ends reception. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 9cf871a | I wonder if men find it easier than women do to consider people not as bodies, as lives, but as numbers, figures, toys of the mind to be pushed about a battleground of the mind. This disembodiment gives pleasure, exciting them and freeing them to act for the sake of acting, for the sake of manipulating the figures, the game pieces. Love of country, or honor, or freedom, then, may be names they give that pleasure to justify it to the gods an.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 6bee0e2 | To deny the past is to deny the future. A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 6386e9c | kids could and did swim in it happily as in their native element, at least until some teacher or professor told them they had to come out, dry off, and breathe modernism ever after. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 9423fd8 | One of the rocks in my soulbag, a little grey rock that I had picked up on a certain day in a certain place in the hills above the river in the Silver Time, a little piece of my world, that became my world. |Every night I took it out and held it in my hand while I lay in bed waiting to sleep, thinking of the sunlight on the hills above the river, listening to the soft shushing of the ship's systems, like a mechanical sea. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| a8d5306 | Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not. In the Sight of Meshe there is no darkness. Therefore those that call upon the darkness+ are made fools of and spat out from the mouth of Meshe, for they name what is not, calling it Source and End. There is neither source nor end, for all things are in the Centre of Time. As all the stars may be reflected in a round raindrop falling in the night: so too do all the stars.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| e8c825e | By the end of this second day of wasted effort, scrabbling and squirming over pressure-blocks and up ice-cliffs always to be stopped by a sheer face or overhang, trying farther on and failing again, Ai was exhausted and enraged. He looked ready to cry, but did not. I believe he considers crying either evil or shameful. Even when he was very ill and weak, the first days of our escape, he hid his face from me when he wept. Reasons personal, r.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| cbc66a1 | Hector had no virtue?" "Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one." "We all do," Aeneas remarked." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| d212270 | I think one cannot be left alive among so many deaths without feeling unendurable shame. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 1ea7fe4 | it was joy they were both after - the completeness of being. If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| b582588 | One of the rocks in my soulbag, a little grey rock that I had picked up on a certain day in a certain place in the hills above the river in the Silver Time, a little piece of my world, that became my world. |Every night I took it out and held it in my hand while I lay in bed waiting to sleep, thinking of the sunlight on the hills above the river, listening to the soft shushing of the ship's systems, like a mechanical sea | solitude | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 866cba6 | As for the doctor's mind, though intelligent and certainly well-meaning, it was a jumble of intellectual artifacts even more confusing than all the gadgets, appliances, and coneniences that filled the ship. These latter Shevek found entertaining; everything was so lavish, stylish, and inventive; but the furniture of Kimoe's intellect he did not find so comfortable. Kimoe's ideas never seemed to be able to go in a straight line; they had to .. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 78e2063 | A writer who wants to write good stuff needs to read great stuff. If you don't read widely, or read only writers in fashion at the moment, you'll have a limited idea of what can be done with the English language. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 80be52b | I do not say that artists cannot be seers, inspired: that the | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| c52bcdf | 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. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| ad19177 | Ged isso la vela. Tutto aveva l'aria di essere stato usato a lungo, faticosamente, sebbene la vela rossocupa fosse rattoppata con grande cura e la barca fosse pulita e ben tenuta. erano come il loro padrone: erano andate lontano, e la vita non le aveva trattate con dolcezza. -- Ora -- disse Ged, -- ora siamo partiti, ora siamo liberi, siamo andati, Tenar. Lo senti anche tu? Lei lo sentiva. Una mano tenebrosa aveva allentato la stretta che a.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| f966031 | Fact is one of our finest fictions. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 736f99f | And I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty that had shaken my friend's voice arises, and how so real a love can become, too often, so foolish and vile a bigotry. Where does it go wrong? | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| b7301b2 | Ebediyet beni ilgilendirmez. Ben bir meseyim, ne bir eksik ne bir fazla. Bir gorevim var ve yerine getiriyorum; hoslandigim seyler var ve onlardan keyif aliyorum. Gerci sayica azaldilar. Cunku kuslar da azaldi. Hem, ruzgar da berbat kokuyor artik. Tamam, uzun omurluyum ama benim de gecici bir sey olmaya hakkim var. Olumlu olma ayricaligim var. Oysa bu ayricalik elimden alindi. ... Dunya da olumu gozleriyle gormek isteyen varsa bu onlarin so.. | inspirational | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 933988d | anlatilacak hikaye ne kadar coksa hakikat de o kadar coktu. | metafor | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| ba0d615 | Otkakto se pomneshe -- a ne beshe koi znae kolko otdavna -- muzikata vinagi go beshe privlichala i plashila, izp'lvaiki go s niakakvo m'chitelno udovolstvie, poniakoga granicheshcho s m'chenieto. Zvuk't na peeshchiia choveshki glas nai-silno ot vsichko go karashe da useshcha, che ne prinadlezhi k'm choveshkiia rod, che tsialata tazi bezkraina igra na krienitsa mu e nap'lno chuzhda, ne zashchoto ia e zabravil, a zashchoto nikoga ne e bil cha.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| a871f31 | Toi v'rveshe, a do nego kracheshe nezhnata, pokorna, neumorima zhena. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| b0fe36a | la diferencia no esta en copular; esta en la otra persona. Y dieciocho anos es como si empezaras cuando descubres [i]esa[/i]diferencia. Al menos, si es una mujer lo que estas tratando de entender. A una mujer puede no durarle tanto el misterio de un hombre, aunque quiza representen una comedia... Como quiera que sea, ese es el gusto de la cosa. Los misterios y las comedias y todo lo demas. La variedad. La variedad no se obtiene solo yendo d.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| ef01342 | It puzzled him. He had assumed that if you removed a human being's natural incentive to work--his initiative, his spontaneous creative energy--and replaced it with external motivation and coercion, he would become a lazy and careless worker. But no careless workers kept those lovely farmlands, or made the superb cars and comfortable trains. The lure and compulsion of profit was evidently a much more effective replacement of the natural init.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| de98a2f | Our border now is no line between two hills, but the line our planet makes in circling the Sun. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| d79bbbe | No entendian que uno tiene que ponerse del lado de los ganadores, o perder. Y es el hombre el que gana, siempre. El viejo conquistador. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 4117590 | En ese curso de Historia Aplicada que segui cuando me preparaba para el Alla Lejos, decian que la esclavitud nunca dio resultado. Que era antieconomica. --De acuerdo, pero esto no es esclavitud, mi querido Ok. Los esclavos son seres humanos. Cuando crian vacas, ?llamas a eso esclavitud? No. Y da resultado. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| d0cbd8b | I didn't know you well at all. Only, when you spoke, I seemed to see clear into you, into the center. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 7cffcc8 | El mundo siempre es nuevo --dijo Coro Mena-- por muy viejas que sean sus raices. Selver, ?que pasa entonces con esas criaturas? Parecen hombres y hablan como hombres. ?No son hombres? --No lo se. ?Acaso el hombre mata al hombre, excepto en un ataque de locura? ?Acaso mata la bestia a los de su especie? Solo los insectos. Estos yumenos nos matan con la misma indiferencia con que nosotros matamos viboras. El que me enseno a mi decia que se ma.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 20bbc79 | Kafamda bu dusunceler gecip duruyordur, kalbim parcalanmisti, perisandi, cevremdeki insanlarla sevinmek istiyor, ama bunu yapamiyordum. Kendimi bir hain gibi hissediyordum, o buyuk hatayi ben yapmisim gibi, buna bizzat kendi, varligim ve kisiligimle ben neden olmusum gibi. Annem insanin kendi kendine acimasina neden olan o sucluluk duygusunu ogretmisti bana, hayatimin buyuk bir bolumunde bu duyguyu hep yasadim. Cocukca ve yanlis oldugunu bi.. | fiction-novel mythology mythology-fiction women-s-strength | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| fef94a8 | Not Afraid. I knew you were a person who ... wouldn't be forced.... Well, yes, I was afraid. I was afraid of you. Not of making a mistake. I knew it wasn't a mistake. But you were-yourself. You aren't like most people, you know. I was afraid of you because I knew you were my equal. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 7fe422f | No entiendo por que hay expertos en esvis que se alistan como voluntarios para una Colonia Abierta. Tu no ignoras que la gente que estas estudiando va a ser explotada, y probablemente exterminada. Es algo que esta en la naturaleza humana, y sabes que eso no puedes cambiarlo. ?Por que entonces vienes a observar que pasa? ?Masoquismo? --No se que es la "naturaleza humana". Quiza sea parte de esa naturaleza humana dejar descripciones de aquell.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 48d8616 | She did feel it. A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart. But she did not feel joy, as she had in the mountains. She put her head down in her arms and cried, and her cheeks were salt and wet. She cried for the waste of her years in bondage to a useless evil. She wept in pain, because she was free. What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to unde.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 6d46721 | The unknown," said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, "the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 892df7c | We who are called royal are those who speak for our people to the powers of the earth and sky, as those powers transmit their will through us to the people. We are go-betweens. The chief duty of a king is to perform the rites of praise and placation as they should be performed, to observe care and ceremony and so understand and make known the will of the powers that are greater than we are. It is the king who tells the farmer when to plow, .. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 2cec245 | 'The fact is,' I said, 'that you're unable, or unwilling, to believe in the fact that I believe in you.' | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| fe5922d | Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. | reason | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 51c1d87 | To the Bullock Roseroot What's the thought you think all your life long? It must be a great one, a solemn one, to make you gaze through the world at it, all your life long. When you have to look aside from it your eyes roll, you bellow in anger, anxious to return to it, steadily to gaze at it, think it all your life long. | poem thought | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 2dff924 | He looked at me. His firm, broad face showed weight-loss in deep shadows under the cheekbones, his eyes were sunken and his mouth sorely chapped and cracked. God knows what I looked like, when he looked like that. He smiled. 'With luck we shall make it, and without luck we shall not.' | luck | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 7c081fb | It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself, Therem. Both and one. A shadow on snow. | gender light philosophy women | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| d60e67b | This Stone He went looking for a road that doesn't lead to death. He went looking for that road and found it. It was a stone road. He walked that road that doesn't lead to death. He walked on it awhile before he stopped, having turned to stone. Now he stands there on that road that doesn't lead to death not going anywhere. He can't dance. from his eyes stones fall. The rainbow people pass him crossing that road, long-legged, light-stepping,.. | lasting road ursula-k-le-guin | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 8d378ed | Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| dc9b63b | Well, we think that time 'passes,' flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see. The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small reader.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 9e7a41e | I felt the pressure of people all around me, all the time. People around me, people with me, people pressing on me, pressing me to be one of them, one of the people. | Ursula K. Le Guin |