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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The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.
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The fundamental assumption that the United States retains the right and obligation to intervene in the Third World in any way it ultimately deems necessary, including military, remains an article of faith among the people who guide both political parties.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. - Drizzt Do'Urden
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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.
