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More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
To hear, one must be silent.
I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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.
To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.
