They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison.
The future, in fiction, is a metaphor.A metaphor for what?If I could have said it non-metaphorically, I would not have written all these words, this novel; and Genly Ai would never have sat down at my...
So rest a while, we can talk in the cool of the evening. Or the cool of the morning. There 's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was. -Hawk
She was the woman in the table.
She had made these with scrap wire and tools from the craft supply depot, and called them Occupations of Uninhabited Space.
Orr was not a fast reasoner. In fact, he was not a reasoner. He arrived at ideas the slow way, never skating over the clear, hard ice of logic, nor soaring on the slipstreams of imagination, but slogg...
One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.
Odo had not tried to renew the basic relationships of music, when she renewed the relationships of men. She had always respected the necessary. The Settlers of Anarres had left the laws of man behind...
Not all roads that lead down lead up as well.
My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.
Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it.
It's a queer business, making oneself blind.
I talk about the gods; I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
I like men very much, but sometimes ... they're so stupid, so stuffed with theories .... They go in straight lines only, and won't stop. It's dangerous to do that. It's dangerous to leave everything u...
I could forget everything I'd lost, because I'd never had it.
He talked a great deal about Truth also, for he was, he said, cutting down beneath the veneer of civilization. It is a durable, ubiquitous, specious metaphor, that one about veneer (or paint, or pliof...
He said after a little while, 'I see why you say that only men do evil, I think. Even sharks are innocent, they kill because they must.' 'That is why nothing can resist us. Only one thing in the worl...
He loved Shevek, but he could not show him what freedom is, that recognition of each person's solitude which alone transcends it.
And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he do....
A voice in the darkness said, ‘You have come too far.’ Arren answered it, saying, ‘Only too far is far enough.