“ Fulfillment, Shevek thought, is a function of time. The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal, The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, alway… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ For those who seek allegory, it must be maddening. (It must be allegory! Of course Frodo is Christ! - or is Gollum Christ?) for those whose grasp on reality is so tenuous that they crave ever-increasi… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ For heroes do not make history—that is the historian’s job—but, passive, let themselves be borne along, swept up to the crest of the tide of change, of chance, of war. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Every so often somebody writes a story or novel in the second person under the impression that it hasn’t been done before. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Even among writers, not all seem to share my enjoyment of pursuing a word or a usage through the dictionaries and the wastebaskets. If I start doing it aloud in public, some of them look at me with ho… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Ethical counsel from the Under White Mountain people, far down the eastern coast of the Inland Sea, was not very well received. They advised: ‘Do not fight these sick people, cure them with human beha… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ El tiempo no transcurría. No había tiempo. Él era el tiempo: sólo él. Era el río, la flecha, la piedra. Pero no avanzaba. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Dünyanın ne kadar güzel olduğunu görmenin yolu, onu ay gibi görmekten geçiyor. Yaşamın ne güzel olduğunu görmenin yolu ölümün bakış açısından bakmaktan geçiyor. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss. The light shines through it, and the dark enters it. Borne, flung, tugged from anywhere t… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Conheço pessoas, conheço cidades, fazendas, montanhas, rios e rochas; sei como sol poente de outono se esparrama pela face de um certo tipo de terra arada; mas qual o sentido de impor uma fronteira a… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ By the end of this second day of wasted effort, scrabbling and squirming over pressure-blocks and up ice-cliffs always to be stopped by a sheer face or overhang, trying farther on and failing again, A… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ But nobody in one lifetime could read more than a fragment of what was here, this broken labyrinth of words, this shattered, interrupted story of a people and a world through the centuries, the millen… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ But because she was not a girl now, she was not awed, but only wondered at how men ordered their world into this dance of masks, and how easily a woman might learn to dance it. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ But Vetch, who had not done so lightly, said, Her name is safe with you as mine is. And, besides, you knew it without my telling you . . . Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Between a man and a woman there is what they want there to be between them... each, and both. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Back then, in 1967, wizards were all, more or less, Merlin and Gandalf. Old men, peaked hats, white beards. But this was to be a book for young people. Well, Merlin and Gandalf must have been young on… Ursula K. Le Guin
