What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I don't know. I love the idea of democracy, the hope, yes, I love that. I couldn't live without that. But the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“No, I don’t mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“How does one hate a country, or love one?... I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Let me ask you this, Mr. Ai: do you know, by your own experience, what patriotism is?” “No,” I said, shaken by the force of that intense personality suddenly turning itself wholly upon me. “I don’t think I do. If by patriotism you don’t mean the love of one’s homeland, for that I do know.” “No, I don’t mean love,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Page 15, paperback version by Virago Press 1997: ... Let me ask you this, Mr Ai: do you know, by your own… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Do the people in this country approve of this war?" [...]. "Approve? You don't think we'd lie down and let the damned… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when things begin growing. And we call the evening star Venus." He thought it over. Perhaps having grown up in the country, among pagans like me, helped him understand my bewilderment. "So do we, he said. "But… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The baby, again, the animal, they don't see the difference between what they do now and what will happen because of it. They can't make a pulley, or a promise. We can. Seeing the difference between now… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane trip. But what if there's five hours between your arrival and your connecting flight, or your plane is late arriving and you've missed your connection, or the connecting flight is late, or the staff of another… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
![“Do the people in this country approve of this war?" [...]. "Approve? You don't think we'd lie down and let the damned Thuvians walk all over us? Our status as a world power is at stake!" "But I mean the people, not the government. The... the people who must fight." "What's it to them? They're used…” quote by Ursula K. Le Guin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eca/ursula-k-le-guin-138_flag_do-the-people-in-this-country-approve-of_1713949.jpg)
