Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest.
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It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction.
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I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
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I've got an interest in Zimbabwe. I spent a few months there before uni, so I'd like to get back to that.
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The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.
