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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When you see me on TV against one of the other girls, they look 10 times better than me, and I'm OK with that. I make a conscious effort not to wear that much makeup and not have my hair so perfectly groomed. That's just not me. I'm not going to be perfect.
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I've just always been around great songwriters. To me, they were the standard.
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Before him, numberless lovers smiled and talked.And death was observed with sudden cries,And birth with laughter and pain.And the trees grew taller and blacker against the skiesAnd night came down again.
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The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.
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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.
