Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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I'm the blackest villain of all time.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggerated jean sizes so they hang off your back... I just don't understand it.
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If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay.
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I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.
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Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.
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You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move it. Since you did not know at all what she meant to do, you left your hand completely free in hers. This is like the power of God in our lives.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
