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Fear Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

29 Fear quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula K. Le Guin’s storytelling always carries an undercurrent of unease, and her 29 reflections on fear echo that. She melds mythic imagination with sharp social observation, inviting readers to consider how fear both limits and liberates societies.

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“Actually, I don’t exactly have expectations. I have hopes, and fears.”

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Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

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There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.

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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.

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“They let us be, here, in the cage of our ignorance.”

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There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

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“Had his fear, in fact, been the personal fear that Selver might having learnt the racial hatred, reject him and treat him…

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No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political,…

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It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold,…

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“No, I don’t mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political,…

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“Not Afraid. I knew you were a person who ... wouldn't be forced… Well, yes, I was afraid. I was afraid of…

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“What are we so afraid of? Why don't we let 'em tell us we're afraid? What is it they're afraid of?" She…

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“Laws are made against the impulse a people most fears in itself. Do not kill was the Shing's vaunted single Law. All…

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“It is hard to meet a stranger. Even the greatest extravert meeting even the meekest stranger knows a certain dread, though he…

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Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when…

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In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence…

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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their…

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“Let me ask you this, Mr. Ai: do you know, by your own experience, what patriotism is?” “No,” I said, shaken by…

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“Somewhere in the notes Estraven wrote during our trek across the Gobrin Ice he wonders why his companion is ashamed to cry.…

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“I'm afraid of life! There are times I--I am very frightened. Any happiness seems trivial. And yet, I wonder if it isn't…

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“Never fear. It is much easier for men to act than to refrain from acting. We will continue to do good and…

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“There is nothing you can do that profit does not enter into, and fear of loss, and wish for power. You cannot…

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“Why are men afraid of women?" "If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear," Ged said. "Yes; but…

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“Page 15, paperback version by Virago Press 1997: ... Let me ask you this, Mr Ai: do you know, by your own…

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“Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we…

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You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is…

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“Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.” He makes fear serve him. I would have let fear lead me around by the…

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“And I saw then again, and for good, what I had always been afraid to see, and had pretended not to see…

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“Wold felt sorry for him, as he often did for young men, who have not seen how passion and plan over and…

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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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