“ 'The fact is,' I said, 'that you're unable, or unwilling, to believe in the fact that I believe in you.' Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 'A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.' Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 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… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: the refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can lick them, join them. If it… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ По-късно, когато Гед размишляваше за тази нощ, стана му ясно, че ако никой не го бе докоснал, докато лежеше бездиханен, ако никой не го бе повикал по някакъв начин, той щеше да си отиде завинаги. Спас… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Откакто се помнеше — а не беше кой знае колко отдавна — музиката винаги го беше привличала и плашила, изпълвайки го с някакво мъчително удоволствие, понякога граничещо с мъчението. Звукът на пеещия чо… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Ölümden korkuyordum. Ölümden o kadar korkuyordum ki belki de ölüyorsunuzdur diye, size bakamıyordum bile. Benim için ölmemenin, eğer bulabilirsem, bir... bir yolu olduğundan başka hiçbir şey düşünemiy… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The Old Powers of earth are not for men to use. They were never given into our hands, and in our hands they work only ruin. Ill means, ill end. I was not drawn here, but driven here, and the force tha… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ That silent vastness of fire and ice that said in enormous letters of black and white DEATH, DEATH, written right across a continent. The sledge pulled like a feather, and we laughed with joy. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Talking about the meaning of a story, we need to be careful not to diminish it, impoverish it. A story can say different things to different people. It may have no definitive reading. And a reader may… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ She had never known who she was at all, except sometimes for a moment in meditation, when her I am became It is, and she breathed the stars Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Paralyzing humiliation was a chemical sequel to getting drunk, like the headache. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Never had a gift but one, to know when the great wheel gives to a touch, to know and act. I had thought that foresight lost, last year in Erhenrang, and never to be regained. A great delight it was to… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Lot. But she never could keep off the hard drugs, she was hooked. She’d be off for a year and then bingo. She got through the Plague, but when she was thirty-eight she got a dirty needle, and it kille… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ It is strange, exceedingly strange, to know that one’s life has been fulfilled. Yet Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He thought no more of performing the lesser arts of magic than a bird thinks of flying. Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ For though only the society could give security and stability, only the individual, the person, had the power of moral choice—the power of change, the essential function of life. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Figurines and souvenirs and kickshaws and mementos and gewgaws and bric-a-brac, everything either useless to begin with or ornamented so as to disguise its use; acres of luxuries, acres of excrement. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ But you're not a traitor, you've merely been the tool of one. I don't punish tools. They do harm only in the hands of a bad workman. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Assumed that if you removed a human being’s natural incentive to work—his initiative, his spontaneous creative energy—and replaced it with external motivation and coercion, he would become a lazy and… Ursula K. Le Guin
