Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

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.

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• Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

  

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• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

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• The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.

  

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• In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

  

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• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

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• I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.

  

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• Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.

  

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• Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

  

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• Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

  

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• This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

  

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• Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.

  

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• I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.

  

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• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

  

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• We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.

  

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• You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter

  

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• The Buddhas who have been and who shall be, of these am I and what they did, I do.

  

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• Slowly, but surely, we are moving in the right direction. We're on the right track. The economy is getting stronger

  

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• 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.

  

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