Ursula K. Le Guin — 28. It Doesn’t Have To Be the Way It Is
updated 1y ago
Ursula K. Le Guin — 28. It Doesn’t Have To Be the Way It Is
We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand
outside things and run them, that way. It just doesn't work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.
from The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel by Ursula K. Le Guin
sari and added
“The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary.”
Ursula K. Le Guinfrom Alternative Prosperity: Reframing The "Good Life"
alexi gunner added
incessant radical change, is not describable in a language that assumes continuity and a common experience of life.
from The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination by Ursula K. Le Guin
Keely Adler added
Tara McMullin and added
For reasons which I will not elaborate, that seems to me fatal. Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‘real’ world.
from The Silmarillion by Christopher Tolkien
Jonathan Simcoe added
- Ursula Le Guin: "They talked, and new worlds were born of their talking. It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on."
Timour Kosters added
