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Ursula K. Le Guin has 350 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and…
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken…
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Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.…
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It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why,…
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
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Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.
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Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the…
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Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write.…
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Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an…
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As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some…
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