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Them 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…
- Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.
- To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
- 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.
- There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not…
- I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light…
- Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything…
- Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.
- A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth…
- ...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of…
- I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after…
- But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
- We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them;…
- We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents…
- I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can…
- No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and…
- Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and…
- You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible…
- You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
- Jungians such as Joseph Campbell have generalised such journeys into a set of archetypal events and images. Though they can be useful in criticism, I…
- In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good unless you can…
- Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if…
- I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could…
- Comfort was allowed to come to them rare, welcome, unsought: a gift like joy.
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster