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More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
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.
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.
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people .
