Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

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  The creative adult is the child who has survived.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Survived, Child

• When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• To me the ‘female principle’ is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

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• The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness.

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• To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfilment, making the fulfilment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

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• It is a terrible thing, this kindness that human beings do not lose. Terrible because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• To see a candle’s light one must take it into a dark place.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Topics in Advice

• A scientist can pretend that his work isn’t himself, it’s merely the impersonal truth. An artist can’t hide behind the truth. He can’t hide anywhere.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science

• To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

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  Topics in Life

• In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Topics in Fear, Religion

• Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.

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  Topics in Religion

• To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.

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  Topics in Religion

• Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn’t taking place.

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  Topics in Inspirational

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books, Reading

• The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books

• The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Philosophy

• I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Writing

• Truth is a matter of the imagination.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Topics in Truth

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry

Ursula K. Le Guin (55)

Birth:	21st October, 1929
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays.

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