It was the most beautiful view Shevek had ever seen. The tenderness and vitality of the colors, the mixture of rectilinear human design and powerful, proliferate natural contours, the variety and harm...
It isn't changing around from place to place that keeps you lively. It's getting time on your side. Working with it, not against it.
Incommunicable. Language used for communication with individual-persons will not contain other forms of relationship. Jor Jor. The right hand, a great, greenish, flipperlike extremity, came forward in...
In this effort to attain security, independence and privacy of course were suspect....
In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it.
In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we’re done with it, we may find—if it’s...
If your strength is only the other’s weakness, you live in fear,
If you write science fiction you can spell things the way you like, sometimes.
If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?Hah! went Tenar; and presently, with some cunning, she said, Haven't there been queens?...
If memory remains sound and the thinking mind retains its vigor, an old intelligence may have extraordinary breadth and depth of understanding.
If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it's useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or leaf, or a net woven of your own hair, or what ha...
If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane trip. But what if there's five hours between your arrival and yo...
I'm not sure. I'm exceedingly ignorant-The young man laughed and bowed. I'm honored! he said.I've lived here for three years, but haven't yet acquired enough ignorance to be worth mentioning.
I wish we could stop using the word belief in matters of fact, leaving it where it belongs, in matters of religious faith and secular hope. I believe we'd avoid a lot of unnecessary pain if we did so.
I was in too much haste, and now have no time left.
I tried to think about what he had asked me to do, to step so far beyond myself. I found it difficult to think about. It was as if it hung over me, this huge choice I must make, this future I could no...
I think what you mostly do when you find you really are alone is to panic. You rush to the opposite extreme and pack yourself into groups - clubs, teams, societies, types. You suddenly start dressing...
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. The only truth I can understand or express is, logically define...
I stood benumbed. The man was like an electric shock--nothing to hold on to and you don't know what hit you.