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“Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Music #Thinking #Way
“The creative adult is the child who has survived.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Children #Creativity #Creative
“A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Believe #Play #Desire
“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Love #Life #Romantic
“I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Real #Technology #Thinking
“Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Art #Resistance
“Nobody who says, â€˜I told you soâ€™ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Freedom #Hero #Adventure
“Owning is owing, having is hoarding.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Hoarding #Owing
“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Inspirational #Real #Book
“The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Matter
“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Funny #Depression #Crazy
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Life #Business #Future
“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Light #Shadow #Casts
“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Writing #Library #Stories
“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Motivational #Graduation #Travel
“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.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Suicide #Taken #Kids
“We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Art #Kings #Resistance
“The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Book #Eye #Technology
“Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Reality #Thinking #Insanity
“Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Wall #Nice #Thinking
“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.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Beautiful #Wisdom #Jobs
“We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Dark #Hands
“We broke the world to make it whole...”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#World #Broke
“When we're done with it, we may findâ€”if it's a good novelâ€”that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having meet a new face, crossed a street we've never crossed before.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#May #Littles #Faces
“In many college English courses the words â€œmythâ€ and â€œsymbolâ€ are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ainâ€™t no good unless you can see a symbol hiding, like a scared gerbil, under every page. And in many creative writing course the little beasts multiply, the place swarms with them. What does this Mean? What does that Symbolize? What is the Underlying Mythos? Kids come lurching out of such courses with a brain full of gerbils. And they sit down and write a lot of empty pomposity, under the impression that thatâ€™s how Melville did it.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Writing #Mean #Kids
“Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Dysfunction #Arise #Function
“There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Age #Twenties #Virtue
“Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Use #Share
“If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Home #Joy #Suffering
“The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .”
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Wall #Acceptance #Way

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