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Whole Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day…
- Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and…
- 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…
- To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.
- 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…
- Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. All the years and places of his brief broken life came…
- We broke the world to make it whole...
- If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being…
- All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse,…
- 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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- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle
- I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not… — Kevyn Aucoin
- 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
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two… — David Attenborough
- The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to… — David Attenborough
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- 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
- You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma… — Margaret Atwood
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden