"Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the……" — Ursula K. Le Guin

"Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison."

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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344 Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin has 344 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve…
He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts…
Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is…
It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it…
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.
Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.
In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite…
Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want…

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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