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“I think people are very brave and often are a lot more frightened than they're allowed to admit. Life is much harder to live for most people than we want to admit. And so many things take a summoning up of courage. It makes one's own life a little bit easier when you can acknowledge that.
-Ursula LeGuin, interviewed by”
― Face to Face: Women Writers on Faith, Mysticism, and Awakening
-Ursula LeGuin, interviewed by”
― Face to Face: Women Writers on Faith, Mysticism, and Awakening
“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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“I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.”
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“I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . . . Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.”
― The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
― The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
“When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
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