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The Settlers of Anarres had left the laws of man behind them, but had brought the laws of harmony along.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle)
Her work, I really think her work isn’t fighting, isn’t winning, isn’t being the Earth, isn’t being the Moon. Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.
Ursula K. Le Guin • Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
Ursula K. Le Guin • A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle Series Book 1)
I don’t like making the rest of the world live in my dreams, but I certainly don’t want to live in yours.”
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Lathe of Heaven
The Le Guin precepts
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“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 Le Guin ― The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
The question remains: When all the time you have is spare, is free, what do you make of it?