“ Ward: Which would you rather have, a National Book Award or a Hugo?Le Guin: Oh, a Nobel, of course. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ WakefulIslandedSnow and silence in the streets.Winter in the bone.In silent houses people sleep.each one alone.Self-islanded by thought and dreamthe solitary soulforgets the deepest depth, the earthth… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Världen är väldig och förunderlig,..., men den är inte väldigare eller mer förunderlig än vårt medvetande. (s. 65) Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Until that moment Vetch had watched him with an anxious dread, for he was not sure what had happened there in the dark land. He did not know if this was Ged in the boat with him, and his hand had been… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Um amor profundo entre duas pessoas envolve, afinal, o poder e a oportunidade de causar mágoa profunda. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices must be made. When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly.… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 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. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 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. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 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… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Thus they both set a fatal trap for the believer: if you believe in God you can’t believe in evolution, and vice versa. But this is rather like saying if you believe in Tuesday you can’t believe in ar… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ This principle, getting it out of place, off-limits, the basic principle of swearing, I understand and approve. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ This has been going on for two or three millennia. That is an amazingly long time for anything to mean anything to anybody. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ There was room for them. A great deal of Italy, back then, was forest. Where man goes, trees die; or, to paraphrase Tacitus, we make a desert and call it progress. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ There seems to be a firewall in my mind against ideas expressed in numbers and graphs rather than words, or in abstract words such as Sin or Creativity. I just don’t understand. And incomprehension is… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unrea… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ There are souls, he thought, who's umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as the enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The word he used was not wallowing, there being no animals on Anarres to make wallows; it was a compound, meaning literally coating continually and thickly with excrement. The flexibility and precisio… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The unknown, said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is basedon. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. If it were proven th… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin. We can't stop here. We must go on. We must tak… Ursula K. Le Guin
