Longer Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin Download Open image ““the longer he lived on Urras, the less real it became to him. It seemed”” — Ursula K. Le Guin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lived Urras Longer Longer Lived Mind Real Urras Real
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“I lived long enough to know that things never remain quite the same for very long.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He left everything he knew behind. Not because life was too short. But because when you lived it alone, it was too damn long.” — R.G. Alexander Copy Share Image
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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.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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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. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
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I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Take good care of your REPUTATION, It's going to live longer than YOU. — Anmol Andore Copy Share Image
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