01c. 1973 ADMaking female noises, shrieking and squeaking and being shrill, all those things that annoy people with longer vocal cords. Another case where the length of organs seems to be so important to men.Ursula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
02c. 1973 ADYou can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.Ursula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
03c. 1973 ADAnd I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is lifeUrsula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
04c. 1973 ADYou can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.Ursula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
05c. 1973 ADBooks, you know, they’re not just commodities. The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words.Ursula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
06c. 1973 ADYou shall not go down twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it was the basis of his view of the world. Yet from that acceptance of transience he evolved his vast theory, wherein what is most changeable is shown to be fullest of eternity, and your relationship to the river, and the river's relationship to you and to itself, turns out to be at once more complex and more reassuring than a mere lack of identity. You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.Ursula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
08c. 1973 ADIt is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.Ursula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
10c. 1973 ADRight now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.Ursula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
11c. 1973 ADAnd I see a lot of us, the producers, who write the books and make the books, accepting this--letting commodity profiteers sell us like deodorant, and tell us what to publish, what to write. Books aren't just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable--but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.Ursula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
12c. 1973 ADThe trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual,only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else.Ursula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
13c. 1973 ADThe use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.Ursula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
14c. 1973 ADIn reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little... But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed.Ursula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
15c. 1973 ADThe constrained body knows and values the freedom of the mind.Ursula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
16c. 1973 ADThe Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.Ursula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
17c. 1973 ADThe winds and seas, the powers of water and earth an light, all that these do, and all that the beasts and green things do, is well done, and rightly done. All these act within the Equilibrium. From the hurricane and the great whale's sounding to the fall of a dry leaf and the gnat's flight, all they do is done within the balance of the whole. But we, insofar as we have power over the world and over one another, we must learn to do what the leaf and the whale and the wind do of their own nature. We must learn to keep the balance. Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility.Ursula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
18c. 1973 ADOdo said it all her life. 'Only peace brings peace, only just acts bring justice!Ursula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
19c. 1973 ADI'm afraid of life! There are times I--I am very frightened. Any happiness seems trivial. And yet, I wonder if it isn't all a misunderstanding-- this grasping after happiness, this fear of pain... If instead of fearing it and running from it, one could... get through it, go beyond it. There is something beyond it. It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.Ursula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
20c. 1973 ADIt's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.Ursula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
21c. 1973 ADFantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.Ursula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
22c. 1973 ADSo rest a while, we can talk in the cool of the evening. Or the cool of the morning. There 's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was." -HawkWho had been ArchmageThe Other WindUrsula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
23c. 1973 ADFor discipline is the channel in which our acts run strong and deep; where there is no direction, the deeds of men run shallow and wander and are wasted.Ursula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
24c. 1973 ADHave you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game we play for pleasure or for praise. Think of this: that every word, every act of our Art is said and is done either for good, or for evil. Before you speak or do you must know the price that is to pay!Ursula K. Le Guin / quote ↗
