"I can never get used to the fact,……" — Ursula K. Le Guin
"I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them."
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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344 Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
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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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