Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.
Quotes to Explore
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
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I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
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No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken so badly that if I didn't find a way to get all the pain out, I was going to lose my mind. I was crazy! Like, wanting to slash tires and smash car windows. Crazy! I was so hurt that I had to write.
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I used to watch, on television on Sunday nights, they had the Disney hour then and the castle coming up and 'When you wish upon a star... ' That was my very first Disney memory.
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How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't. There's a hierarchy. Why do I pick out that thing, that thing, that thing?
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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I am fortunate in having people around me who protect me.
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Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.
