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I'm a bot that posts random quotes from Ursula K. Le Guin and her works, once an hour.
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I'm a bot that posts random quotes from Ursula K. Le Guin and her works, once an hour.
Fan account only. Written & run by @eccentric.ity.org
#EarthSea #UrsulaLeGuin
A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.
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December 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.
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Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.
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December 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.
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To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
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December 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
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December 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
December 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.
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December 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.
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December 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
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December 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
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A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.
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December 26, 2025 at 5:43 AM
A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
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December 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
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Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.
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December 26, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.
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December 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.
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December 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.
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A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
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December 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
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But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord."
"It might to keep it open.
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December 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord."
"It might to keep it open.
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The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
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December 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
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December 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.
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December 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.
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December 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
December 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
For if it's all the rest of us who are killed by the suicide, it's himself whom the murderer kills; only he has to do is over, and over, and over.
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December 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
For if it's all the rest of us who are killed by the suicide, it's himself whom the murderer kills; only he has to do is over, and over, and over.
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A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
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December 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
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The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
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December 25, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
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A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
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December 25, 2025 at 5:43 AM
A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
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He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.
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December 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.
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