Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes - Page 19

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• There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing them, in reading them, in criticizing them. Vive les différences! They're what gives each genre its singular flavor and savor, its particular interest for the reader - and the writer.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, Reading, Writing

  "Ursula K. Le Guin talks about genres, gender, and broadening fiction". Interview with Michael Cunningham, electricliterature.com. April 2, 2016.

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• How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught?

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  People, Ignorant, Taught

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “Tales from Earthsea”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

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  Wise, Use

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• Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.

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  Ghetto, Imagination, Fiction

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• Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.

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  Light, Years, Looks

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Telling”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A man who saw a miracle would reject his eyes' witness, if those with him saw nothing.

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  Eye, Men, Miracle

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.

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  Sex, Waiting Rooms, Preamble

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.4, Grove Press

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• Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

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  Stranger

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1967). “Three Hainish Novels”

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• Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they stared ahead again. I had thought that only beetles had this delusion of Progress.

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  Science, Mirrors, Car

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• All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.

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  Thinking, Times Are Changing, People

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “Tales from Earthsea”, p.368, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.

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  Passion, Giving, Way

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.70, Penguin

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• What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we call psychosis is sometimes simply realism. But human beings can't live on realism alone.

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  Psychosis, Needs, Alive

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.

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  Decision, Morality, Modern

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.18, Grove Press

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• It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.

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  Fate, Men, Important

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1967). “Three Hainish Novels”

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• As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely around among realism, magical realism, science fiction, fantasy of various kinds, historical fiction, young adult fiction, parable, and other subgenres, to the point where much of it is ungenrifiable, all got shoved into the Sci Fi wastebasket or labeled as kiddilit - subliterature.

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  Moving, Years, Historical

  "Ursula K. Le Guin talks about genres, gender, and broadening fiction". Interview with Michael Cunningham, electricliterature.com. April 2, 2016.

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• Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.

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  Block, Car, Experience

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.158, Grove Press

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• There is no kingdom like the forests.

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  Kingdoms, Forests

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.

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  Irritation, Mind, Levi Strauss

  "Chronicles of Earthsea". The Guardian Online Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2004.

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• What is more arrogant than honesty?

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  Honesty, Arrogant

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.147, Penguin

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• In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.

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  Evil, Littles, Innocence

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.

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  Healing, Doe, Seeming

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2009). “Powers”, p.291, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

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  Dream, Writing, Used

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• Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.

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  Communication, Sleep, People

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1973). “The lathe of heaven”

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• Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

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  Art, Writing, Practice

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• It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.

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  Art, Ambition, Men

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.488, Simon and Schuster

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