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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• The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of a single thought.

  

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• There needs to be leadership in the heartland of America.

  

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• I don't mind if the couple next to me is tense or the kids are whiny. I'd even be happy to hear an honest argument, evidence of thinking. I'd like to know these teeth-perfect families don't just buy each other stuff but just occasionally can talk to one another.

  

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• With respect to Euro-Atlantic integration, we have to realize that we need to normalize the relationships with our neighbors, and especially with Russia.

  

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• For years, when I was popular, I would face the blank page to write, and I couldn't think of anything that I thought was good enough.

  

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  • Good
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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