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To die is to lose the self and rejoin the rest. He had kept himself, and lost the rest.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle)
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.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Left Hand of Darkness: 50th Anniversary Edition (Ace Science Fiction)
the global, intuitional language of fantasy to describe, as accurately as they can, the way “we” live “now.”
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
The Left Hand of Darkness: 50th Anniversary Edition (Ace Science Fiction)
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“It is useless work that darkens the heart.”
– Ursula Le Guin, in her novel The Dispossessed
Ursula Le Guin recently said, “It’s up to authors to spark the imagination of their readers and to help them envision alternatives to how we live.”
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.
Ursula K. LeGuin • A Wizard of Earthsea: The First Book of Earthsea (The Earthsea Quartet 1)
Io scrivo fantascienza, e la fantascienza non riguarda il futuro. Non so del futuro più di quanto ne sappiate voi, probabilmente meno. […] Non sto prevedendo, né prescrivendo. Sto descrivendo. Sto descrivendo alcuni aspetti della realtà psicologica nel modo in cui lo può fare una romanziera, ovvero inventando bugie elaborate e dettagliate.
~ Ursula
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