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~ Ursula K. LeGuin Quotes ~
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Ursula K. LeGuin Quotes


An American author.
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929) is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, notably in fantasy and science fiction. First published in the 1960s, her works explore Taoist, anarchist, ethnographic, feminist, psychological and sociological themes.

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To oppose something is to maintain it.

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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.

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Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing if not carcinogenic.

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« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2015, 05:53:59 PM »
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

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« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2015, 05:54:29 PM »
When action grows unprofitable gather information; when information grows unprofitable sleep.

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« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2015, 06:40:09 PM »
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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« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2015, 06:40:38 PM »
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made like bread; remade all the time made new.

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« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2015, 06:41:14 PM »
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.

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« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2015, 06:42:24 PM »
You must not change one thing one pebble one grain of sand until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

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« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2015, 06:46:57 PM »
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child he would grow up to be an eggplant.

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« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2015, 07:03:32 PM »
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth as human truth all the maps change. There are new mountains.

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« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2015, 07:04:48 PM »
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones the thick ones the ones with no doors in.

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« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2015, 07:05:13 PM »
A person who believes ... that there is a whole of which one is a part and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever at any time to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.