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I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20.


Ursula Andress

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URSULA K. LEGUIN I miss the innocence of your childish sweet smile
and your gentle, knowing touch.

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URSULA K. LEGUIN To oppose something is to maintain it.
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URSULA K. LEGUIN The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
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URSULA K. LEGUIN The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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URSULA K. LEGUIN Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most ...
URSULA K. LEGUIN Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
URSULA K. LEGUIN To hear, one must be silent
URSULA K. LEGUIN The creative adult is the child who has survived.
URSULA K. LEGUIN There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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URSULA K. LE GUIN If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don...
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URSULA K. LE GUIN To oppose something is to maintain it.
URSULA K. LE GUIN When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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URSULA K. LE GUIN The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in wo...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain...
URSULA K. LE GUIN There are no right answers to wrong questions.
URSULA K. LE GUIN What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
URSULA K. LE GUIN The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
URSULA K. LE GUIN My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
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URSULA K. LE GUIN Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, m...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is...
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URSULA K. LE GUIN Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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URSULA K. LE GUIN If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Heaven and earth
begin in the unnamed:
name’s the mother
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URSULA K. LE GUIN When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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URSULA K. LE GUIN And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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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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