"In that moment Ged understood the singing of……" — Ursula K. Le Guin
"In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves; it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight."
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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.
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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 Basin Quotes
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
— Paul Cezanne
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Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and…
— George Eliot
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Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa…
— Frances Ford Seymour
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Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people,…
— Justin Martyr
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Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest…
— Bill McKibben
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Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue…
— George Eliot
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But when I look in the basin, among the curdlike blood clots, I see and elfin thorax, attentuated, its pencilline…
— Sallie Tisdale
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If substantial methyl hydrate melt begins to occur in the Arctic Ocean basin, then the (carbon) accelerator will be jammed,…
— Mark Lynas
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It's true. We're really working hard to make Incline Lake a reality, but that doesn't mean that we're not focused…
— Unknown Author
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Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing…
— Peter Elbow
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