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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
Written by 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 new.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
Written by 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.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
To oppose something is to maintain it.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin

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