Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls.
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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You can't escape from what you are.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.
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When we think of Gemini.com, it will be like a Nasdaq for bitcoin.
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As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.
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I've learned never to say never.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of will, heroism on command, senseless violence, and all of the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.
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When you get older, you realize it's a lot less about your place in the world but your place in you. It's not how everyone views you, but how you view yourself.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls.
