Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• I converse with my dog through ESP.

  

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• How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

  

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• I'm extremely determined and ambitious.

  

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• Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.

  

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• I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

  

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• Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

  

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• The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

  

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• Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.

  

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• I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.

  

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• I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.

  

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• I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

  

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• I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

  

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• Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

  

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• Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

  

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• I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.

  

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• If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.

  

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• When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

  

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• From the moment of using rocket devices, a great new era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament.

  

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• Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

  

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• There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.

  

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• I know firsthand that immigrants make enormous contributions to our nation, but I also know that we need to secure our borders and make sure that those who came here illegally wait their turn, pay a fine and any unpaid taxes, and pass a criminal background check before becoming citizens.

  

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• If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

  

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• The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Single
  • Famous
  • Sea