“ He was one whose power was akin to, and as strong as, the Old Powers of the earth; one who talked with dragons, and held off earthquakes with his word. And there he lay asleep on the dirt, with a litt… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He was clearly aware of only one thing, his own total isolation. The world had fallen out from under him, and he was left alone. To die is to lose the self and rejoin the rest. He had kept himself, an… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He saw time turn back upon itself, a river flowing upward to the spring. He held the contemporaneity of two moments in his left and right hands; as he moved them apart he smiled to see the moments sep… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He had no answer. He had no right to all the grace and bounty of this world, earned and maintained by the work, the devotion, the faithfulness of its people. Paradise is for those who make Paradise. H… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Having replaced instinct with language, society, and culture, we are the only species that depends on teaching and learning. We aren’t human without them. In them is true power. But are they the occup… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Ged issò la vela. Tutto aveva l'aria di essere stato usato a lungo, faticosamente, sebbene la vela rossocupa fosse rattoppata con grande cura e la barca fosse pulita e ben tenuta. erano come il loro p… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ For discipline is the channel in which our acts run strong and deep; where there is no direction, the deeds of men run shallow and wander and are wasted. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Ernest Hemingway would have died rather than have syntax. Or semicolons. I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after semicolons, and another… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Don’t WORry if OTHers disaGREE DON’T WORry if OTHers DISagree Don’t WORry if OTHers DISaGREE Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Do you know how to read?' 'No. It is one of the black arts.' He nodded. 'But a useful one,' he said. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not. In the Sight of Meshe there is no darkness. Therefore those that call upon the darkness† are made fools of and spat out from the… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Consider: There is no division of humanity into strong and weak halves, protective/protected, dominant/submissive, owner/chattel, active/passive. In fact the whole tendency to dualism that pervades hu… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ But was not a theory of which all the elements were provably true a simple tautology? In the region of the unprovable, or even the disprovable, lay the only chance for breaking out of the circle and g… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Bence bugün çoğu insan, dile getirmeseler bile, tevazuu bir erdem olarak görüyor ve hayatında tevazua yer veriyor. Günlük sohbetleri, marangozların birlikte çalışırken, sekreterlerin molalarda konuşur… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Bedap, who had been putting on weight at the waist and was serious about exercise, was trotting earnestly around the playing field. The others were sitting on a dusty bank under trees, getting their e… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Because she too was an Odonian, and the separation of means and ends was, to her too, false. For her as for him, there was no end. There was process: process was all. You could go in a promising direc… Ursula K. Le Guin
