“ Critics and academics have been trying for forty years to bury the greatest work of imaginative fiction in English. They ignore it, they condescend to it, they stand in large groups with their backs t… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ As for the doctor's mind, though intelligent and certainly well-meaning, it was a jumble of intellectual artifacts even more confusing than all the gadgets, appliances, and coneniences that filled the… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We live well in the houses, well enough, but we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we sailed in ships between the stars. Now, we dare not go 100 miles from home. We keep a little knowledge an… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Well, we come here to the Fastnesses mostly to learn what questions not to ask.But you're the Answerers!You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?No––To exhibit the perfect u… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We're not outside the world... We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see? If we don't say the words, what is their in our world? Ursula K. Le Guin
“ They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe i… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some of them have come to see it, others are content merely to know it is there. They all know that it has to be there. Some of them understand why… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ There's a saying, Aeneas said: Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts. He spoke wryly. Horses, particularly. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The weather bureau will tell you what next Tuesday will be like, and the Rand Corporation will tell you what the twenty-first century will be like. I don’t recommend that you turn to the writers of fi… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Tezyeme, he said, which meant something on the order of it is happening the way it is supposed to happen. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Shevek saw that he had touched in these men an impersonal animosity that went very deep. Apparently they, like the tables on the ship, contained a woman, a suppressed, silenced, bestialized woman, a f… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ She was so elaborately and ostentatiously a female body that she seemed scarcely to be a human being. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women. Ursula K. Le Guin
