Ursula K. Le Guin Short Quotes

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There are no right answers to wrong questions...

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Existence is its own justification, need is right.

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The more defensive a society, the more conformist.

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To be whole is to be part;
true voyage is return.

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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.

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He detested them for forcing helplessness upon him.

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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

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Highdrake said that to make love is to unmake power.

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Men who fight wars in Winter don't live till Spring.

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Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.

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It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

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The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.

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Coercion is the least efficient means of obtaining order.

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No, I don't understand him, but he is worth listening to.

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The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.

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The great authors share their souls with us— literally.

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There's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.

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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

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We sleep researchers like cats, you know; they sleep a lot!

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To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place.

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The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.

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Heal the Wound, Cure the illness, but let the Dying spirit go

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All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.

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Well, he said. Strange roads have strange guides. Let's go on.

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One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.

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A realist is a man who knows both the world and his own dreams.

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No granite is so hard as hatred and no clay so cold as cruelty.

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I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.

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He resolved not to speak again until he had controlled his temper.

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