“ He grinned a little as he thought it; for he had always liked that pause, that fearful pause, the moment before things changed. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as el… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. Actually, fiction can be lots better than experience, because it's a manageable size, it's comprehens… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Everyone is important, Sue said I learned that this summer.Was that the truth that the croaking voice had gasped at torture’s end? She didn’t believe it. Nobody was important. But she couldn’t say tha… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Estraven stood there in harness beside me looking at that magnificent and unspeakable desolation. 'I'm glad I have lived to see this,' he said.I have felt as he did. It is good to have an end to journ… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Did you ever happen to think, Dr. Haber, he said, quietly enough but stuttering a little, that there, there might be other people who dream the way I do? That reality's being changed out from under us… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Deux êtres unis par un profond amour n'ont-ils pas des chances de se faire mal non moins profondément? N'en ont-ils pas le pouvoir? Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Det som förblir oförändrat för länge förstör sig själv. Skogen är evig därför att den dör och dör och därför lever. (s. 319) Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Dessutom tar jag hellre emot dåliga nyheter från en ärlig man än lögner från en smickrare (s. 72). Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Death sentences are short and very, very manly. Life sentences aren’t. They go on and on, all full of syntax and qualifying clauses and confusing references and getting old. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Bütün duvarlar gibi iki anlamlı, iki yüzlüydü. Neyin içeride, neyin dışarıda olduğu, duvarın hangi yanından baktığınıza bağlıydı. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ But the death of a great mage, who has many times in his life walked on the dry steep hillsides of death’s kingdom, is a strange matter: for the dying man goes not blindly, but surely, knowing the way… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ But in fact, isn't that man's very purpose on earth--to do things, change things, run things, make a better world?No!What is his purpose, then?I don't know. Things don't have purposes, as if the unive… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, wh… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ But I think we will have trouble learning how to lie, having for so long practiced the art of going round an round the truth without ever lying about it, or reaching it either. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Because you are human beings you are going to meet failure. You are going to meet disappointment, injustice, betrayal, and irreparable loss. You will find you're weak where you thought yourself strong… Ursula K. Le Guin
