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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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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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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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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I think poverty is the biggest challenge for Los Angeles and for many of our cities that have come back from the recession.
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Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
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The most important impact on society and the world is the cell phone. Cell phones have actually been one of the primary drivers in productivity improvements.
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Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.
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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.
