American - Writer | October 21, 1929 -
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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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.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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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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Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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