Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.

  

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• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

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• When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

  

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• My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

  

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• Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

  

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• I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.

  

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• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

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• I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!

  

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• I choose to focus on the positive.

  

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• It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

  

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• One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

  

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• Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

  

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• The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

  

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• To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

  

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• Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.

  

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• It was such a pivotal time in Elvis' life; he was just a poor boy from Tupelo, Miss. That's all he really was. He had the same feelings as everybody.

  

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• The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.

  

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• Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.

  

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• A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

  

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• Very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • May
  • Stop