"But it is one thing to read about……" — Ursula K. Le Guin
"But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them."
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344 Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin has 344 quotes on this site.
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Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve…
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts…
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Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is…
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It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it…
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
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Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.
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Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite…
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Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want…
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More Dragons Quotes
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If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick…
— Margaret Atwood
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with…
— Mario Batali
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Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've…
— Jo Brand
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I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
— Rita Mae Brown
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Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.
— Steven Brust
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Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon…
— Madeleine Albright
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As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes…
— A. S. Byatt
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It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's…
— Tori Amos
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Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot…
— Audre Lorde
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Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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