Crafty writers...don't allow Exposition to form Lumps. They break up the information, grind it fine, and make it into bricks to build the story with.
But I'm not going to stand up on a gravestone and look down on life and say, 'O lovely!
Bu yüzden geçmiş dört yıla bakan Shevek, onları yitirilmiş olarak değil, Takver'le yaşamlarında kurdukları yapının bir parçası olarak gördü. Zamana karşı çalışmaktansa zamanla birlikte çalışmanın iyi...
As he came to the bank Ogion, waiting, reached out his hand and clasping the boy’s arm whispered to him his true name: Ged.
An early visitor described a Veksi village as five big houses full of women swearing at each other and fourteen little houses full of men sulking.
There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.
Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction...
Until then I had rejected him, refused him his own reality. He had been quite right to say that he, the only person on Gethen who trusted him, was the only Gethenian I distrusted. For he was the only...
As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence,...
En ese curso de Historia Aplicada que seguí cuando me preparaba para el Allá Lejos, decían que la esclavitud nunca dio resultado. Que era antieconómica.De acuerdo, pero esto no es esclavitud, mi queri...
Proud men and umbrageous men, casting black shadows.
He saw what was up and
You're a respectable woman, dearie, and her reputation is a woman's wealth.Her wealth, Tenar repeated in the same blank way; then she said it again: Her wealth. Her treasure. Her hoard. Her value...
You can't change anything from outside it. Standing apart, looking down, taking the overview, you see the pattern. What's wrong, what's missing. You want to fix it. But you can't patch it. You have to...
What is more arrogant than honesty?
What can you do to evil but refuse it? Not pretend it isn’t there, but look at it, and know it, and refuse it. Punishment, what is punishment? Getting even, schoolboy stuff. The Bible God, vengeance i...
What are we so afraid of? Why don't we let 'em tell us we're afraid? What is it they're afraid of? She picked up the stocking she had been darning, turned it in her hands, was silent awhile; finally s...
We’re in the world, not against it. It doesn’t work to try to stand outside things and run them that way. It just doesn’t work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The worl...
We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
We don’t count relatives much; we are all relatives, you see.