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Hard Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're writing. And if…
- All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
- I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and…
- I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
- If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And…
- Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given,…
- It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
- I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most societies it determines…
- He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he…
- Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and…
- The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.
- In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word…
- What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously. As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I've thought on it. Often I've…
More Hard Quotes
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons. — Lance Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong
- Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
- Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do… — Darren Aronofsky
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius