Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
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I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.
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Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
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I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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The first thing I remember about the world - and I pray that it may be the last - is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.
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I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy.
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Time and experience have taught me a priceless lesson: Any child you take for your own becomes your own if you give of yourself to that child. I have born two children and had seven others by adoption, and they are all my children, equally beloved and precious.
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The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.
