Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes - Page 18

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• What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible rational, coherent world, is nothing less than everything. . . . . All human knowledge is local. Every life, each human life is local, is arbitrary, the infinitesimal momentary glitter of a reflection.

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  Humility, Reflection, Order

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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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• But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.

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  Grieving, Wife, Forever

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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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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• In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.

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  Airports, People, Soul

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2014). “Changing Planes: Stories”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

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  People, Want

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• One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.

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  Kings, Men, May

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• ...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.

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  Voice, Stories, Facts

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.11, Penguin

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• Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring.

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  Spring, War, Fighting

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions”, p.175, Macmillan

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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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• All makers must leave room for acts of the spirit.

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  Rooms, Spirit, Makers

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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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• Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

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  Genre Is, Used, Genre

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• The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.

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  Future, Thinking, Sacred

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.103, Grove Press

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• My Real Children starts quietly, then suddenly takes you on two roller-coaster rides at once, swooping dizzily through a double panorama and ending in a sort of super Sophie's Choice. A daring tour de force.

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  Children, Real, Two

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• Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else

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  Art, Writing, Mysterious

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• That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.

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  Kings, Trying, Dueling

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• One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.

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  Doe, Fiction, Knows

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• Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story.

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  People, Trying, Way

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.170, Grove Press

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• ...fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and read and dreamed. But experience isn't something you go and get - it's a gift, and the only prerequisite for receiving it is that you be open to it. A closed soul can have the most immense adventures, go through a civil war or a trip to the moon, and have nothing to show for all that "experience"; whereas the open soul can do wonders with nothing.

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  War, Adventure, Moon

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• The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.

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  Islands, Sea, Storm

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us.

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  Heart, Animal, Frozen

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.550, Simon and Schuster

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• A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.

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  Appreciation, Men, Want

  "The Left Hand of Darkness". Chapter 7 "The Question of Sex" (p. 95). Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969.

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• George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.

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  Reality, Impossible, Defective

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