“ I think one cannot be left alive among so many deaths without feeling unendurable shame. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 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… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I hope you’ll understand that I am not quoting those great words lightly. I do mean it. Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I forgot, being too interested myself, that he’s a king, and does not see things rationally, but as a king. All I’ve told him means to him simply that his power is threatened, his kingdom is a dust mo… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I didn't know you well at all. Only, when you spoke, I seemed to see clear into you, into the center. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean j… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I asked if these two psychopaths could not be cured. Cured? Goss said. Would you cure a singer of his voice? Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I am sorry, I am very sorry to ask you to lie, he said, so earnestly that I wondered if it hurt him to lie. That made him seem more like a god than a human being. If it hurt to lie, how could you stay… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Hector had no virtue? Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one. We all do, Aeneas remarked. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Heathen is merely a word for somebody who knows a different sacredness than you know Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Hearth-brothers, or friends, he said, and saying it was remote, out of reach, two feet from me in a tent eight feet across. No answer to that. What is more arrogant than honesty? Cooled, I climbed int… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He was putting on his old clothes, and as he pulled the shirt over his head he saw the doctor stuff the blue and yellow sleeping clothes into the trash bin. Shevek puased, the collar still over his no… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He listened to the radio, but it would not listen to him. He was all alone, and nothing seemed to be real in solitude. He needed somebody, anybody, to talk to, he had to tell them what he felt so that… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He knew that insofar as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He gave way to the fear that had come with her, the sense of the breaking of promises, the incoherence of Time. He broke. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He explained to Atro that he now understood why the army was organized as it was. It was indeed quite necessary. No rational form of organization would serve the purpose. He simply had not understood… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Hate Orgoreyn? No, how should I? How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the s… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Go into a dark bar for a bit and have a beer with Dionysios, every now and then. 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 t… Ursula K. Le Guin
