We men dream dreams, we work magic, we do good, we do evil. The dragons do not dream. They are dreams. They do not work magic: it is their substance, their being. They do not do; they are.
We have created crime, just as the propertarians did. We force a man outside the sphere of our approval, and then condemn him for it. We’ve made laws, laws of conventional behavior, built walls all ar...
We cried Sisterhood is powerful!—and they believed us. Terrified misogynists of both sexes were howling that the house was burning down before most feminists found out where the matches were.
We came. . . from a great distance to each other. We have always done so, over great distances, over years, over abysses of chance. It is because he comes from so far away that nothing can separate us...
Wasn’t it immoral to do work you didn’t enjoy? The work needed doing but a lot of people didn’t care what they were posted to and changed jobs all the time; they should have volunteered. Any fool coul...
Ward: Which would you rather have, a National Book Award or a Hugo?Le Guin: Oh, a Nobel, of course.
WE stowed the wheels, uncapped the sledge-runners, put on our sis, and took off -- down, north, onward, into that silent vastness of fire an ice that said in enormous letters of black and white DEATH,...
Vermediğiniz şeyi alamazsınız, kendinizi vermeniz gerekir. Devrim'i satın alamazsınız. Devrim'i yapamazsınız. Devrim olabilirsiniz ancak.
Vad hon hade börjat lära sig var hur tungt det kan kännas att bli fri. Friheten är en mäktig börda som ens själ måste bära på. Det är inte så lätt. Det är ingen gåva man får, det är ett val man gör, o...
Una sociedad sólo puede aliviar el sufrimiento social, el sufrimiento innecesario. El resto subsiste. La raíz, la realidad. Todos nosotros, los que estamos aquí, vamos a conocer el dolor; si vivimos c...
Um amor profundo entre duas pessoas envolve, afinal, o poder e a oportunidade de causar mágoa profunda.
Ultimately you write alone.
To oppose something is to maintain it. They
To make something well is to give yourself to it, to seek wholeness, to follow spirit. To learn to make something well can take your whole life. It’s worth it.
To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven.
To him a thinking man's job was not to deny one reality at the expense of the other, but to include and to connect.
To hear, one must be silent.’ The
To enter with heart and mind into the world of the imagination may be to head deliberately and directly toward, or back toward, engagement with the real world.
To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained, the vaster the appetite for more.
To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. Thus proof is a word not often used among the Handdarata, who have chosen n...