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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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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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 put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.
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And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.
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I wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.
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I find that there's so much funny stuff in real life, and I am much more interested in super grounded, real stuff, so now I just want things to feel real and authentic.
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We too often satisfy ourselves with the perishable things of time, forgetting the opportunities we have of developing within us the great, the eternal principles of life and truth. The Lord wishes to establish a closer and more intimate relationship between Himself and us; He wishes to elevate us in the scale of being and intelligence, and this can only be done through the medium of the everlasting Gospel which is specially prepared for this purpose.
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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.
