The truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing but does only and wholly what he must do. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

What is more arrogant than honesty? #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

I have given my love to what is worthy of love. Is that not the kingdom and the unperishing spring? #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house? #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house? #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

Truth is a matter of the imagination. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

You are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they could not put out the light. They could not hide you. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

Not even need and love can defeat fate... #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

Nobody who says, 'I told you so' has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

Not even need and love can defeat fate... #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

The machine conceals the machinations. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

A rock is a good thing, too, you know. If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we'd lead a hard life here. Enjoy the illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

That is between me and my shadow. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

And 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 life #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of? #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

To oppose something is to maintain it. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness. #UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin