Ursula K. Le Guin — 28. It Doesn’t Have To Be the Way It Is
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Ursula K. Le Guin — 28. It Doesn’t Have To Be the Way It Is
I’ve told myself ever since that it was a dream. That it was a dream! But it wasn’t. This is. This isn’t real. This world isn’t even probable. It was the truth. It was what happened. We are all dead, and we spoiled the world before we died. There is nothing left. Nothing but dreams.” She believed him, and denied her belief with fury. “So what? Mayb
... See moreUrsula K. Le Guin • The Lathe of Heaven
“Fiction results from imagination working on experience. We shape experience in our minds so that is makes sense. We force the world to be coherent—to tell us a story.
Not only fiction writers do this; we all do it; we do it constantly, continually, in order to survive. People who can’t make the world into a story go made. Or, like infants or (perha
... See morewith times changing... "what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think"
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The inability to imagine a world in which things are different is evidence only of a poor imagination, not of the impossibility of change. —RUTGER BREGMAN, Utopia for Realists
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Only the imagination can get us out of the bind of the eternal present, inventing or hypothesizing or pretending or discovering a way that reason can then follow into the infinity of options, a clue through the labyrinths of choice, a golden string, the story, leading us to the freedom that is properly human, the freedom open to those whose minds c
... See moreUrsula K. Le Guin • Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
