Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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The thing I hate about the film business, is having to pitch your idea.
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I have been battling vertigo for a long time. It's something that I deal with on a daily basis.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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My God! I thank Thee for the bath of sleep, That wraps in balm my weary heart and brain, And drowns within its waters still and deep My sorrow and my pain. I thank Thee for my dreams, which loose the bond That binds my spirit to its daily load, And give it angel wings, to fly beyond Its slumber-bound abode.
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I'd ask people to keep in mind the idea that if you really understand something, it's even more important for you to consider the possibility of your wrongness. Even if it takes someone dumber than you to point that out.
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This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
