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More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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.
Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.