To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.
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Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.
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You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.
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It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.
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How do I know," she said at last, "that you are what you seem to be?"
"You don't," Said he. "I don't know what I seem, to you.
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Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes â the walls, the walls!
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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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The light is the left hand of darkness
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One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.
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The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.
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Book cover. All Flesh is Grass by Clifford D. Simak (Sci Fi / 1965) Pink cover, top shows a person's face and below is plants. Middle is a black bar and title inset in white letters.
Book cover. Devotions by Mary Oliver (Poetry Collection / 2017) Cover is white and inset in the middle a person has a bird on their finger and is feeding it.
Book cover. Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson (Alt History / 1988) Purple cover shows hillsides shaded from light at top to dark at bottom
Book cover. Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hist Fic / Mythology / 2008) Light green or maybe cream cover, titles in gold letters and in the middle are gold olive leaves.
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Books arriving and also checking out my locals
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Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new. When it was made, they lay in each other's arms, holding love, asleep.
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For in this love he now felt there was compassion: without which love is untempered, and is not whole, and does not last.
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I come with empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls.
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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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When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. âDo they expect students not to be anarchists?â he said. âWhat else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
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Do you know how to read?'
'No. It is one of the black arts.'
He nodded. 'But a useful one,' he said.
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Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.
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It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.
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The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
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Listened to the first episode of the new podcast "In Your Spare time: From the blog of Ursula K. Le Guin", where #ursulakleguin s blog is read out by different people.
The first episode featured #davidmitchell , who read her first blog post and then told about his relationship to LeGuins work […]
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Yes. There's really only one question that can be answered, Genry, and we already know the answer....The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
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The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.
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To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place.
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It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.
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Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.
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