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Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new.

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 - )
 
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More quotes about: love, love-making, renewal, awareness, living, life
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Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 - )
 
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'A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skillful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection, and of sociality as a whole.' -- Odo

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 - )
Source: The Dispossessed, Page: 247
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'So then time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises.' -- Shevek

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 - )
Source: The Dispossessed, Page: 223
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"Socrates said, "The misuse of language induces evil in the soul." He wasn’t talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in itself, to sing a poem or tell a story, goes right, goes towards the truth.

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper."

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 - )
Source: Ursula K. LeGuin
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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 - )
 
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Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 - )
 
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 - )
 
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True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blonde Hero--really look--and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 - )
 
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To oppose something is to maintain it.

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 - )
 
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