Adults Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula K. Le Guin’s eight short lines on adults weave speculative imagination with keen social observation, hinting at the deeper narratives behind everyday life.

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For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that…

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“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We…

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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.

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There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right…

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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a…

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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a…

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As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely…

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The creative adult is the child who has survived.

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“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.”

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Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like…

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“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when…

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“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the…

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“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The…

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“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane…

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“The author is not impartial. Dystopia is not tragedy.”

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Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.

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I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

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“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the…

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To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by…

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“Hector had no virtue?” “Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one.” “We all do,” Aeneas remarked.”

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“I was willing to believe him that most modern writing was trash, on the evidence that so much old writing was trash; but I…

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“Can women operate as women in a male institution without becoming imitation men?”

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