Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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The sun is so powerful, that without it we are nothing.
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I feel that it's very important for young people to have a sense of history and do research and don't re-invent the wheel and don't think that you're the first martyr to discover social injustice but to take advantage of previous generations of activists and find out what they did and how they resolved things.
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Such taxes upon the necessaries of life, when they have grown up to a certain height, are a curse equal to the barrenness of the earth and the inclemency of the heavens; and yet it is in the richest and most industrious countries that they have been most generally imposed. No other countries could support so great a disorder.
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Book Everything is Flammable is an odd format though, not quite a diary and not quite a memoir. I was working on it as it was happening. This was gratifying to me.
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Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
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Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.
