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Up Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.
- What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up
- He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the…
- 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…
- Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What…
- 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…
- I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
- I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
- I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.…
- It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold,…
- Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits…
- A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing…
- 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…
- When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young…
- What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible…
- What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human society depends on…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong