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“Truth is a matter of the imagination.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.”
― The Telling
― The Telling
“There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.”
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“The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable. If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell it to you again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book."
(Staying Awake: Notes on the alleged decline of reading, Harper's Magazine, February 2008)”
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(Staying Awake: Notes on the alleged decline of reading, Harper's Magazine, February 2008)”
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