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Own Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own…
- The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over…
- Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.
- I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds…
- Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human,…
- A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course, finds its own…
- Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve…
- Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control,…
- My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram…
- Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own,…
- The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.
- And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name,…
- Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.
- Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes,…
- When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily,…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov