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World Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken by the world.…
- Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors embody…
- 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…
- Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course…
- It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of…
- 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…
- Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.
- 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 forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the…
- The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
- 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…
- My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
- What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
- 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.
- We broke the world to make it whole...
- 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…
- We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.
- My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left,…
- 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…
- But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.…
- Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
- I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining of two people.…
- If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach