I never had a gift but one, to know when the great wheel gives to a touch, to know and act.
I come with empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls.
I bid your voice be dumb until the day you find a word worth speaking.
I asked if these two psychopaths could not be cured. Cured? Goss said. Would you cure a singer of his voice?
I am without a face among men. I am not seen. I speak and am not heard. I come and am not welcomed. There is no place by the fire for me, nor food on the table for me, nor a bed made for me to lie in....
I am not sure who I am, I said cautiously.Many people never are, she said. But it doesn't matter, you know. If for one moment of your whole life you know that you are, then that's your life, that mome...
Huge heavy things come and stand on granite and the granite just stays there and doesn’t react and doesn’t give way and doesn’t adapt and doesn’t oblige and when the huge heavy things walk away the gr...
How do I know, she said at last, that you are what you seem to be?You don't, Said he. I don't know what I seem, to you.
Hiç kimse cezayı kazanmaz, ödülü de. Aklınızı hak etmek, kazanmak gibi fikirlerden arındırın, ancak o zaman düşünebileceksiniz.
His efforts to break out of his essential seclusion were, in fact, a failure, and he knew it. He made no close friend. He copulated with a number of girls, but copulation was not the joy it ought to b...
Here, the government can check not only act but thought. Surely no men should have such power over others.
Her despair grew so great that it burst her breast open and like a bird of fire shattered the stone and broke out into the light of day--the light of day, faint in her windowless room.
He was putting on his old clothes, and as he pulled the shirt over his head he saw the doctor stuff the blue and yellow sleeping clothes into the trash bin. Shevek puased, the collar still over his no...
He was one whose power was akin to, and as strong as, the Old Powers of the earth; one who talked with dragons, and held off earthquakes with his word. And there he lay asleep on the dirt, with a litt...
He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in. But
He grinned a little as he thought it; for he had always liked that pause, that fearful pause, the moment before things changed.
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...
He copulated with a number of girls, but copulation was not the joy it ought to be. It was a mere relief of need, like evacuating, and he felt ashamed of it afterward because it involved another perso...
Having replaced instinct with language, society, and culture, we are the only species that depends on teaching and learning. We aren’t human without them. In them is true power. But are they the occup...