“ Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors beside battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing right do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fantasy is good at thi… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Imagination is not a means of making money. It has no place in the vocabulary of profit-making. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ If you can see a thing whole, he said, it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives. . . . But close up, a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ If plain men hide their true name from all but a few they love and trust utterly, so much more must wizardly men, being more dangerous, and more endangered. Who knows a man's name, holds that man's li… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ If I turned left, east, I could look up a little, and I could see how the rain came, not only in waves as I often see it from the windows of the house, but spaced and crowded together to form columns,… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I will tell my tale as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that truth is a matter of the imagination. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I think… most women marry to get their freedom.Then they want less than I do. There’s something inside me, in my heart, a brightness and a heaviness, how can I describe it? Something that exists and d… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I think if you have lost a great happiness and try to recall it, you are only asking for sorrow, but if you do not try to dwell on the happiness, sometimes you find it dwelling in your heart and body,… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I think Homer outwits most writers who have written on the War, by not taking sides. The Trojan war is not and you cannot make it be the War of Good vs. Evil. It’s just a war, a wasteful, useless, nee… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I don't know. I love the idea of democracy, the hope, yes, I love that. I couldn't live without that. But the country? You mean the thing on the map, lines, everything inside the lines is good and not… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I came away from both these concerts marveling that while our republic tears itself apart and our species frantically hurries to destroy its own household, yet we go on building with vibrations in the… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him; he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorgi… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 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 Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Ged said at last, speaking low, There is a thing that I fear, Estarriol. I fear it more if you are with me when I go. There in the Hands in the dead end of the inlet I turned upon the shadow, it was w… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ For it seemed to me, and I think to him, that it was from that sexual tension between us, admitted now and understood but not assuaged, that the great and sudden assurance of friendship between us ros… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Farei meu relatório como se contasse uma história, pois quando criança aprendi, em meu planeta natal, que a Verdade é uma questão de imaginação. O fato mais concreto pode fraquejar ou triunfar no esti… Ursula K. Le Guin
