“ [H.G. Wells said] that his method was to trick his reader into an unwary concession to some plausible assumption and get on with his story while the illusion holds. Such prestidigitation is a characte… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You’re trying to reach progressive, humanitarian goals with a tool that isn’t suited to the job. Who has humanitarian dreams? Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your mot… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You can't change anything from the outside in. Standing apart, looking down, talking the overview, you see pattern. What's wrong, what's missing. You want to fix it. But you can't patch it. You have t… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You can keep up that crap for years. But it finally catches up with you. And then you realise all you've done is save your shit to drown in. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You are beautiful, Tenar said in a different tone. Listen to me, Therru. Come here. You have scars, ugly scars, because an ugly, evil thing was done to you. People see the scars. But they see you, too… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes – the walls, the walls! Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Yes. There's really only one question that can be answered, Genry, and we already know the answer....The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what com… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Women used and did what there was to use and do, but men shunned and despised a great many things, such as wicker chairs and cooking and storytelling, depriving themselves of many skills and pleasures… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Wold felt sorry for him, as he often did for young men, who have not seen how passion and plan over and over are wasted, how their lives and acts are wasted between desire and fear. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ With the myth of the State out of the way, the real mutuality and reciprocity of society and individual became clear. Sacrifice might be demanded of the individual, but never compromise: for though on… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Why hadn’t she been a detective instead of a goddamn stupid third-class civil rights lawyer? She hated the law. It took an aggressive, assertive personality. She didn’t have it. She had a sneaky, sly,… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Who would be an artist if they did not believe that that happens? If they did not know it happens, because they have felt the god within them use their tongue, their hands? Maybe only once, once in th… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Who am I? Laia muttered to her invisible audience, and they knew the answer and told it to her with one voice. She was the little girl with scabby knees, sitting on the doorstep staring down through t… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Where man goes, trees die; or, to paraphrase Tacitus, we make a desert and call it progress. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ When mind uses itself without the hands it runs the circle and may go too fast.... The hand that shapes the mind into clay or written word slows thought to the gait of things and lets it be subject to… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. Do they expect students not to be anarchists? he said. What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ What's wrong with men? Tenar inquired cautiously.As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, I don't know, my dearie. I've thought on it. Often I've thought on it. The best I can say it is like t… Ursula K. Le Guin
