Clarity Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

“She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed.”

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“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.”

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“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when…

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“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the…

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For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely…

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“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The…

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“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane…

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“The author is not impartial. Dystopia is not tragedy.”

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Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.

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I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

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“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the…

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To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by…

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Its a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal.

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Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

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It comes a moment that someone says something really small, but fits so perfect into your heart that everything start to make sense!!

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“Replaying the past in your mind won't change the present; it only steals the clarity needed to shape what comes next.”

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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the…

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It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with…

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President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military…

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The law of polarity brings forth clarity to your life.

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In meditation you withdraw from others and focus your attention inside to gain purity of mind and wisdom energy. Then you must become extroverted…

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In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

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