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Quotes from Ursula K. Le Guin

If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity.
~ 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.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
You can go home again...so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
What is more arrogant than honesty?
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin