Balance Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

8 Balance quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula K. Le Guin provides eight succinct observations about balance. The collection is modest, yet each statement carries her characteristic depth, offering a quick yet thoughtful look at equilibrium.

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“Do you see how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and…

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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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“Life rises out of death, death rises out of life, in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to…

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But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow…

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You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us…

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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel.…

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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

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If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came…

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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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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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