Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

538 quotes · Author, Poet, Essayist

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Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

All Philosophical Creative Angry Wise Spiritual 538 quotes · page 19 of 45

Ursula K. Le Guin

Author, Poet, Essayist

Creative

“It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give.”

Giving Dark Small Changes

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Author, Poet, Essayist

Angry

“A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.”

Animal Machines Intention

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Determined

“To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.”

Choices Rocks

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Philosophical

“To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.”

Perfect Knowing

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Confident

“The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper.”

Writing Long Paper

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Creative

“It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.”

Ideas Light Done

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Spiritual

“In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.”

Loss Fear Force

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Angry

“Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that's the real art; it makes the work inexhaustible.”

Mean Art Real

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Philosophical

“That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.”

Trying Kings Dueling

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Wise

“I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.”

Writing Trying Showing Up

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Sad

“It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.”

Men Important Fate

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Wise

“In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.”

Littles Evil Innocence

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