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So they labored among the waves that ran like smoking mountains under the wind, while the rain beat hard and cold on their backs, and the drum thumped through the noise of the storm like a heart thumping.
Ursula K. Le Guin • A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle Series Book 1)
Art is not a horse race. Literature is not the Olympics.
Ursula K. Le Guin • No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
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
"nobody can be wise alone" -- ursula k le guin
(Poor Godshaping. Lack of forethought.)
Octavia E. Butler • Parable of the Sower
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.