But I guess I can't, or my subconscious can't, even imagine a warless world. The best it can do is substitute one kind of war for another. You said, no killing of humans by other humans. So I dreamed...
Boris Pasternak said that poetry makes itself from the relationship between the sounds and the meanings of words.
Because you are human beings you are going to meet failure. You are going to meet disappointment, injustice, betrayal, and irreparable loss. You will find you're weak where you thought yourself strong...
Bana görülmeye değer bir şey göstermemi söylemiştin. Ben de sana, seni gösterdim.
Arren was silent, pondering this. Presently the mage said, speaking softly, 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, a...
Are there really people without resentment, without hate? she wondered. People who never go cross-grained to the universe? Who recognize evil, and resist evil, and yet are utterly unaffected by it? Of...
Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.
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.
An Odonian’s goal is positive, not negative. Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely destructive.
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people...
All her life she had looked into dark; but this was a vaster darkness, this night on the ocean. There was no end to it. There was no roof. It went out beyond the stars.
All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apartfrom older forms of fiction seems to be its use of new metaphors, drawn fromcertain great dominants of our contemporary life --...
Ai was exhausted and enraged. He looked ready to cry, but did not. I believe he considers crying either evil or shameful. Even when he was very ill and weak, the first days of our escape, he hid his f...
A warm body sighed in the darkness inside the little bright object balanced elegantly in the orbit of the moon.
A people that doesn't live at the center of the world, as defined and described by its poets and storytellers, is in a bad way. The center of the world is where you live fully, where you know how thin...
A lot of snow out of one cloud, and it grows thicker.
Was I to join them therefore? To let their acts rule my own? I will not make their choices for them, nor will I let them make mine for me!
Orgota cooking was insipid; no harm in that. But why did the people I met, whether well or ill disposed towards me, also seem insipid? There were vivid personalities among them––Obsle, Slose, the hand...
No entiendo por qué hay expertos en esvis que se alistan como voluntarios para una Colonia Abierta. Tú no ignoras que la gente que estás estudiando va a ser explotada, y probablemente exterminada. Es...
El mundo siempre es nuevo dijo Coro Mena por muy viejas que sean sus raíces. Selver, ¿qué pasa entonces con esas criaturas? Parecen hombres y hablan como hombres. ¿No son hombres?No lo sé. ¿Acaso el h...