Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes - Page 13

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• There is neither source nor end, for all things are in the Center of Time. As all the stars may be reflected in a round raindrop falling in the night: so too do all the stars reflect the raindrop. There is neither darkness nor death, for all things are, in the Light of the Moment, and their end and their beginning are one.

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  Stars, Fall, Night

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• The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.
  
  The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

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  Artist, Novelists, Doe

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.10, Penguin

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• Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.

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  Writing, Done, Noise

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• The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.

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  Artist, Said, Deals

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2018). “Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.62, Hachette UK

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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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• It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.

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  Grandfather, Criminals, Noses

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.103, Penguin

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• Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

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  Book, Return, Sanity

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.9, Penguin

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• Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

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  Faith, Men, Legends

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.46, Penguin

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• What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.

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  Writing, Practice, Voice

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2015). “Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

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  Beautiful, Wisdom, Jobs

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• See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.

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  Loneliness, Solitude, Persons

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.199, Ultramarine Publishing

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• We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.

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  Dark, Thinking, Night

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.11, Ultramarine Publishing

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• It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of course; simultaneity is identity. But to our perceptions, that simultaneity will function as a transmission, a sending. So we will be able to use it to talk between worlds, without the long waiting for the message to go and the reply to return that electromagnetic impulses require. It is really a very simple matter. Like a kind of telephone.

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  Communication, Winning, Simple

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• To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

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  Women, Order, Law

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.11, Grove Press

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• I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.

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  Children, Imagination, Stories

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.131, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.

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  God, Voice, Political

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• The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.

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  Civilization, Viruses, Information

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• The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

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  Issues, Coins, Individual

  "The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, May 1974.

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• Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.

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  Men, Exception

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

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  Rocks, Rivers, Choices

  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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• The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.

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  Character, Fiction, Granted

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• Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.

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  Poison, Excess, Body

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• Love is the true condition of human life.

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  Love Is, Human Life, Humans

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• Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.

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  War, Hero, Lavinia

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “Lavinia”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting the apocalypse, selling the holocaust, is a pornography. For the ultimate selling job on ultimate violence one must read those works of fiction issued by our government as manuals of civil defense, in which you learn that there's nothing to be afraid of if you've stockpiled lots of dried fruit.

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  Jobs, Business, Acceptance

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