“ The question was where to start. Where to build up a solid foundation of knowledge on which you could balance ideas. It wasn’t exactly a modest ambition. But what I had learned from Natalie was that y… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The only emotion I felt was shame. For him, for myself. Again I had trusted, and again I had betrayed and been betrayed. Venne Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The idea that only belief sees the world as wonderful, and the cold hard facts of science take all the color and wonder out of it, the idea that scientific understanding automatically threatens and we… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The horses wore no gear at all but a halter without bit. Their manes were braided with streamers of silver, gold, and green. They flared their nostrils and pranced and boasted to one another; they wer… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The heavy work requiring muscle and the skilled work with crops and sheep was done by Ged, Shandy, and Tenar, while the two old men who had been there all their lives, his father's men took him about… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means. Orr Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The discovery brings him victory, the kind of victory that isn’t the end of a battle but the beginning of a life. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.The artist whose medium is fiction does this The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The Gethenians do not see one another as men or women. This is almost impossible for our imaginations to accept. After all, what is the first question we ask about a newborn baby? ....there is no divi… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ So many of his problems were of a kind that other people did not understand, that he got used to working them out for himself, in silence. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ She touched his face and tied his hair back for him. Her hands were cool. He had never felt anything pleasanter in all his life than the touch of her hands. He reached out for her hand. She was not th… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Question 14: Are you living your secret desires? Floored again. I finally didn’t check Yes, Somewhat, or No, but wrote in I have none, my desires are flagrant. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Prevne was crawling with agents, he went, even if you went to buy a newspaper your identification was checked. Easier to have it tattooed on, like you, said Kasimir, Move your foot, Stefan.—Move your… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads and cities of fidelity: a landscape inhabitable by… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ One of the most dangerous is the implication that civilization, being artificial, is unnatural: that it is the opposite of primitiveness… Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, an… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Once you are there, once you walk through the wall with me, then as I see it you are one of us. We are responsible to you and you to us; you become an Anarresti, with the same options as all the other… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ OfferingI made a poem goingto sleep last night, wokein sunlight, it was clean forgotten.If it was any good, godsof the great darknesswhere sleep goes and fartherdeath goes, you not named,then as true… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ No, I don’t mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. It grows in us, that fear. It grows in us… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Most best-sellers are written for readers who are willing to be passive consumers. The blurbs on their covers often highlight the coercive, aggressive power of the text—compulsive page-turner, gut-wre… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new. When it was made, they lay in each other's arms, holding love, asleep. Ursula K. Le Guin
