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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b6fd7d9 | The mezklete bustled up to them, pushing its little cart with its furry paws. Mezkletes love parties, love to give food, love to serve drinks and watch their humans get weird. It stayed about hopefully for a while to see if they would get weird, then bustled back to the Anarresti theorists, who were always weird. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| f1f476b | I never knew a person who reacted so wholly and rapidly to a changed situation as Estraven. I was recovering, and willing to go; he was out of thangen; the instant that was all clear, he was off. He was never rash or hurried, but he was always ready. It was the secret, no doubt, of the extraordinary political career he threw away for my sake; it was also the explanation of his belief in me and devotion to my mission. When I came, he was rea.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| dfd59b6 | To say that an Orgota government fell means, of course, only that one group of Commensals replaced another group of Commensals in the controlling offices of the Thirty-Three. Some shadows got shorter and some longer, as they say in Karhide. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 6bbfe9c | Though I had been nearly two years on Winter I was still far from being able to see the people of the planet through their own eyes. I tried to, but my efforts took the form of self-consciously seeing a Gethenian first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those categories so irrelevant to his nature and so essential to my own. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 3dcb98c | Though I had been nearly two years on Winter I was still far from being able to see the people of the planet through their own eyes. I tried to, but my efforts took the form of self-consciously seeing a Gethenian first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those categories so irrelevant to his nature and so essential to my own. Thus as I sipped my smoking sour beer I thought that at table Estraven's performance had been womanly, all c.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| cfcc663 | 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 course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the sa.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 55980c7 | People who sleep only two or three hours in the twenty-four are always geniuses. The ones you hear about, anyway. Never mind if the ones you don't hear about are dolts. Insomnia is genius. It must be. Think of all the work you could do the thoughts you could think, the books you could read, the love you could make, while the dull clods lie snoring. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 9cebf1a | How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's .. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 1fc5b1d | Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. When | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 3034483 | Orr's gods were nameless and unenvious, asking neither worship nor obedience. "Yet" | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 3378e5f | Stealthily the stars slid forward into nothingness. | night stars | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 5940e66 | Cum poti sa urasti o tara sau sa iubesti alta? Tibe vorbeste despre asemenea lucruri, eu n-am abilitatea lui. Eu cunosc oameni, orase, ferme, dealuri, rauri si stanci. Stiu cum, toamna, razele amurgului scalda un luminis pe o colina. Dar ce rost are sa inconjuri toate aceste lucruri cu o granita, sa le dai un nume si sa te opresti cu iubirea acolo unde numele inceteaza? Daca iti iubesti tara inseamna sa urasti netara? Atunci nu-i bine. E o .. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 0b9f748 | In a world of physical ease, brutal social equality, and reasonable economic equality, exclusiveness in frivolity becomes the most sought-after of all distinctions. | equality frivolity | Roger Zelazny | |
| 48a7a05 | Man is the sum total of everything he has done, wishes to do or not to do, and wishes he had done, or hadn't. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 22c2f69 | Mina olin tellinud lihtsalt hobuse. Et ma saaksin kaaslastega sammu pidada, selleks oleks kolvanud iga vana heinahavitaja. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| fa44751 | I wanna wake up naked next to you, kissing the curve in your clavicle. | Alkaline Trio | ||
| 3095d01 | We left with empty hands, a hundred and seventy years ago, and we were right. We took nothing. Because there is nothing here but States and their weapons, the rich and their lies, and the poor and their misery. There is no way to act rightly, with a clear heart, on Urras. There is nothing you can do that profit does not enter into, and fear of loss, and the wish for power. You cannot say good morning without knowing which of you is 'superio.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| bf9cff1 | I walk on the ground and the ground's walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world. Only | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 9d13828 | He thought, I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| a5470ad | No one else, no thing even, has an existence of its own for him; he sees the world only as a means to his end. It doesn't make any difference if his end is good; means are all we've got ... | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 9527bc5 | What will the creature made all of sea-drift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking? His | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| b2d8795 | white-skinned, | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 15b1756 | He explained to Atro that he now understood why the army was organized as it was. It was indeed quite necessary. No rational form of organization would serve the purpose. He simply had not understood that the purpose was to enable men with machine guns to kill unarmed men and women easily and in great quantities when told to do so. Only he still could not see where courage, or manliness, or fitness entered in. He | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 28ebbbc | He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in. But | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 9b44ded | If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown. | future heritage legacy metaphor past | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 1e3357c | To hear, one must be silent.' The | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 9b165da | Lloro por los anos que habia perdido esclavizada a un mal inutil. Lloraba de dolor, porque era libre. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 5f9d48c | what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago, part invention. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| c1cd707 | 'They eat their kind,' he said, 'Like men.' | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 55a523c | H.G. Wells said] that his method was "to trick his reader into an unwary concession to some plausible assumption and get on with his story while the illusion holds." Such prestidigitation is a characteristic ploy of science fiction: to make a nonexistent entity or impossible premise acceptable (often by scientific-sounding terms such as telepathy, extraterrestrial, cavorite, FTL speed) and then follow through with a genuinely realistic, log.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 4e36268 | Deux etres unis par un profond amour n'ont-ils pas des chances de se faire mal non moins profondement? N'en ont-ils pas le pouvoir? | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 9617184 | Everything is old, here. We are old - the Masters. | experienced old-age travel wisdom | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 1175a05 | What good seeking the safe course, on a journey such as this? There are senseless courses, which I shall not take; but there is no safe one. Streth | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 871db75 | His efforts to break out of his essential seclusion were, in fact, a failure, and he knew it. He made no close friend. He copulated with a number of girls, but copulation was not the joy it ought to be. It was a mere relief of need, and he felt ashamed of it afterward because it involved another person as object. Masturbation was preferable, the suitable course for a man like himself. Solitude was his fate; he was trapped by his heredity. S.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 5989f66 | Somehow is a super-weasel, a word that betrays that the author didn't want to bother thinking out the story--"Somehow" | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 3436d93 | don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 685dfd8 | To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained, the vaster the appetite for more. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| ad69332 | 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. They were intelligent, their minds were already disciplined to the clarity of science, and they were sixteen years old. But at this point the pleasure of the argument ceased for Shevek, as it had earlier for Kvetur. He was disturbed. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 6272c2c | Pravic was not a good swearing language. It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| e3ad73c | Le Guin's Rule: One person cannot do two fulltime jobs, but two persons can do three fulltime jobs -- if they honestly share the work. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 45f5789 | Cinders patter, falling with the snow. We creep infinitesimally northward through the dirty chaos of a world in the process of making itself. Praise then Creation unfinished! | creation forces-of-nature | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| a6e58fb | I had believed that justice could exist in a society founded on injustice. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 522016f | Nar vi ovat nagot blir vara handlingar starka och nar djupt. Nar vi inte kanner ratta kursen blir vi forvirrade. Gar vilse, forslosar vart arv. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 4e60f72 | I was alone, with a stranger, inside the walls of a dark palace, in a strange snow-changed city, in the heart of the Ice Age of an alien world. | stranger-in-a-strange-land winter | Ursula K. Le Guin |