Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
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I grew up on films.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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I think I need security.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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Jon Ive is off the fucking rails and the only person who could rein him in is no longer among the living. ... no way would Steve have ever been so vulgar as to be driven around by a chauffeur in a Bentley, like a modern-day pharaoh. ... Jon Ive is 47 years old, secretly running Apple, and dangerously out of control.
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Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.
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Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.
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I have never sought out the extraordinary or the scoop. I looked at what complemented my life. The beauty of the ordinary was always the source of my greatest emotions.
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Why was life stacked in such a way that she’d had to make binding decisions—where to live, whom to marry, whether to subjugate her own aspirations to those of Sam—before she had any way of knowing what she wanted? It seemed a cruel stroke that a willingness to wrestle with those questions came only after youth had been expended.
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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
