Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

538 quotes · Author, Poet, Essayist

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Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Author, Poet, Essayist

Philosophical

“O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.”

Moving Time Foolish

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Author, Poet, Essayist

Regretful

“I gather that a lot of the "pots" in the great museum in Baghdad, which we allowed to be looted and then gutted, are now for sale to the highest bidder on the art and archeology black market. This is good capitalism, I guess, while a museum, being a public trust and accessible to all, is anticapitalist, pretty damn near socialist in fact.”

Art Black Museums

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Wise

“Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.”

People Artist

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Philosophical

“Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.”

Body Poison

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Inspired

“When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.”

Consciousness Messages Changing Your Life

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Courageous

“Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.”

Way Noble Righteous

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Courageous

“Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.”

Break Injustice

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Philosophical

“What is life without incompatible realities?”

Reality What Is Life

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Philosophical

“The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.”

Trying Mind Goodness

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Philosophical

“At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.”

Mean Reality Understanding

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Melancholic

“The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.”

Thinking Men Real

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Philosophical

“No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.”

Reality Pain Roots

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