“ Like all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you were on. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Let us consider Elfland as a great national park, a vast and beautiful place where a person goes by himself, on foot, to get in touch with reality in a special, private, profound fashion. But what hap… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Kemmer is not always played by pairs. Pairing seems to be the commonest custom, but in the kemmerhouses of towns and cities, groups may form and intercourse take place promiscuously among the males an… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest one to be sure. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ If women had power what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can? Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I'll die, you'll die; how could we love each other otherwise? The sun's going to burn out, what else keeps it shining? Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I think we shall have trouble learning how to lie, having for so long practiced the art of going round and round the truth without ever lying about it, or reaching it either. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He liked the way she began her fierce, scornful sentences so often with a weak, conciliatory 'well.' She cut the ground out from under them before they ever got going, let them hang unsupported in the… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Had his fear, in fact, been the personal fear that Selver might having learnt the racial hatred, reject him and treat him not as you but as one of them. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Fatos não são mais sólidos, coerentes, perfeitos e reais do que pérolas. Mas ambos são sensíveis. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ But belief is the wound that knowledge heals, and death begins the Telling of our life Ursula K. Le Guin
“ And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power,… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ A woman's a different thing entirely. Who knows where a woman begins and ends? Listen, mistress, I have roots, I have roots deeper than this island.Deeper than the sea, older than the raising of the l… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ A story that has nothing but action and plot is a pretty poor affair; and some great stories have neither. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The baby, again, the animal, they don't see the difference between what… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I have learned how I work best, and that is something that, if you're going to be a professional writer, you should be noticing: under what circumstances you work at your best, and to not get yourself… Ursula K. Le Guin
