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Ursula K. Le Guin
“I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.”
Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin
“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

Joyce Carol Oates
“I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing-for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it’s impossible to see your opponent is you …”
Joyce Carol Oates, On Boxing

Dorothy Allison
“People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do the right thing because the world doesn't make sense if you don't." (145)”
Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in Life of Ivan Denisovich

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