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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 32m

She looked where he was looking, into the dim gulf of air above the western sea. “If she comes, she'll come from there,” he said. “And if she doesn't come, she is there.” She nodded. “I know.” Her eyes were filled with tears.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 2h

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 4h

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 6h

“You told me to show you something worth seeing. I show you yourself.”

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 8h

The traitor, the self; the self that cries I want to live; let the world burn so long as I can live!

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 10h

“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 12h

A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media, the mechanical slaughter of endless battalions of black-clad, yellow-toothed, red-eyed demons.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13h

Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 14h

But in time nothing can be without becoming.

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 14h

To be whole is to be part;
true voyage is return.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 16h

The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 18h

it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 20h

“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 20h

I see life as a shared gift, received from others and passed on to others, living and dying as one process, in which lies both our suffering and our reward. Without mortality to purchase it, how can we have the consciousness of eternity? I think the price is worth paying.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 20h

I’m not dead. I sleep sometimes. Sleep comes very close to death, everyone knows that. The dead walk in dreams, everyone knows that. They come to you alive, and they say things. They walk out of death into the dreams.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 22h

And mage and sailor are not so far apart; both work with the powers of sky and sea, and bend great winds to the uses of their hands, bringing near what was remote.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

But we, insofar as we have power over the world and over one another, we must learn to do what the leaf and the whale and the wind do of their own nature. We must learn to keep the balance.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

the endless warm drizzle of spring—the ice of Antarctica, falling softly on the heads of the children of those responsible for melting it.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

Despite what some adults seem to think, teenagers are fully human.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

She spoke if in trance, rapture. Manan watched her. His slabby face never expressed much but stolid, careful sadness; it was sadder than usual now. “Well, and you're mistress of all that,” he said. “The silence, and the dark.”

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

A great many white readers in 1967 were not ready to accept a brown-skinned hero. But they weren’t expecting one. I didn’t make an issue of it, and you have to be well into the book before you realize that Ged, like most of the characters, isn’t white.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think

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