We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.
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We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.
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When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.
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The machine conceals the machinations.
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It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.
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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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Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
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I come with empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls.
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A rock is a good thing, too, you know. If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we'd lead a hard life here. Enjoy the illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks.
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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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Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.
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There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
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For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
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The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.
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I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.
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Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.
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Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.
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Go to bed; tired is stupid.
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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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Ursula K. Le Guin’s Writing Style
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Ursula K. Le Guin's writing style examined.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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Truth is a matter of the imagination.
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She'll die.'
'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.
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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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Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.
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It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.
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