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• What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't make a virtue of it, or a profession...Insofar as I love life, I love [my country], but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.

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  Country, Hate, Love Life

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• It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.

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  Magic, Tunes, Spells

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “Tales from Earthsea”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.

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  Desire, Growing, Desire For Power

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “Tales from Earthsea”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

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  War, Opposites, Civilization

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.77, Penguin

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• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

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  Writing, Technology, Fiction

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.169, Grove Press

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• Dreams take short cuts.

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  Dream, Cutting, Short Cuts

  Ursula K Le Guin (2014). “The Lathe of Heaven”, p.20, Diversion Books

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• When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.

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  Space, Trout, Deeds

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

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  Pain, Artist, Evil

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

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• My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

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  Inspirational, Stupid, Equality

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1996). “Unlocking the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

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  Suicide, Taken, Writing

  "Prospects for Women in Writing" (speech), Portland, Me., Sept. 1986

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• Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience

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  Mastery, Nine, Time Patience

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.

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  Writing, Kids, Simple

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.54, Ultramarine Publishing

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• I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

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  Art, Lying, Thinking

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• A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being. If he would not be a stick whirled and whelmed in the stream, he must be the stream itself, all of it, from its spring to its sinking in the sea.

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  Spring, Men, Sea

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude.

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  Long, Silence, Solitude

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.205, Shambhala Publications

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• There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.

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  Two, Kind, Universal

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Doe, Morality, Function

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.

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  Dark, Land, Cities

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.198, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is 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.

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  Children, Dragons, Challenges

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.44, Ultramarine Publishing

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• The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

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  Travel, Son, Ships

  "The Dispossessed". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, May 1974.

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• Not even need and love can defeat fate.

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  Fate, And Love, Needs

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “Lavinia”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

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  Art, Writing, Skills

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2015). “Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 safer for children to grow up in.

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  Country, Running, Baby

  The Lathe of Heaven ch. 6 (1971)

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• There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.

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  Cat, Comfort, Old Woman

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.44, Penguin

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• So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

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  Childhood, Firsts, Steps

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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