Elvis and I continued to be friends, and I saw him once or twice a year. But he was a troubled person.
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URSULA K. LE GUIN I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
URSULA K. LE GUIN But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
URSULA K. LE GUIN It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering hap...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, b...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
URSULA K. LE GUIN If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
URSULA K. LE GUIN The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what come...
URSULA K. LE GUIN No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very...
URSULA K. LE GUIN But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
URSULA K. LE GUIN The creative adult is the child who has survived.
URSULA K. LE GUIN He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
URSULA K. LE GUIN There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you lea...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Not even need and love can defeat fate...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The best I can say, it's like this. A man's in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell ... It's hard ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words a...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
URSULA K. LE GUIN "In innocence there is no strength against evil," said
Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. "But there is ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
URSULA K. LE GUIN But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord."
"It might to keep it open.
URSULA K. LE GUIN 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 War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to �...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on th...
URSULA K. LE GUIN War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to �...
URSULA K. LE GUIN He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. An...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
URSULA K. LE GUIN It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
URSULA K. LE GUIN I bid your voice be dumb until the day you find a word worth speaking.
URSULA K. LE GUIN He was born to be alone, a damned cold intellectual, an egoist.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Independence was as far as his mind could reach. Yet I think his mind groped further, towards what h...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I use your love as a man burns a candle, burns it away, to light his steps.
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