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 22 of 45

Ursula K. Le Guin

Author, Poet, Essayist

Wise

“We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.”

Art Differences Practice

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Author, Poet, Essayist

Philosophical

“Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.”

Lying Gaps Twisted

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Wise

“There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.”

Cat Comfort

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Creative

“Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.”

Doors Drama

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Lonely

“See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.”

Persons Loneliness Solitude

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Adventurous

“The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.”

Son Travel Ships

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Thoughtful

“I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the stories have to square with my consciousness as a woman and my conscience as a human being.”

Want Stories Squares

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Creative

“Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and when we come back, it may be very hard to describe where we have been.”

Reading Dark Letting Go

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Spiritual

“There is neither source nor end, for all things are in the Center of Time. As all the stars may be reflected in a round raindrop falling in the night: so too do all the stars reflect the raindrop. There is neither darkness nor death, for all things are, in the Light of the Moment, and their end and their beginning are one.”

Fall Night Stars

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Sad

“The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us.”

Heart Animal Frozen

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Adventurous

“Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.”

Heart Teacher Baby

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Grateful

“To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful, one must compare and contrast it with something worse - not better!”

Dark Gratitude Grateful

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