"The explorer who will not come back or……" — Ursula K. Le Guin
"The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile."
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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 Adventurer Quotes
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while…
— James Buchan
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It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers.…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books:…
— Isabel Allende
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That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which…
— Joseph Conrad
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The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
— Ovid
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We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.
— Alexander Eliot
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Chance is the providence of adventurers.
— Laurence Sterne
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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one…
— H. Rider Haggard
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He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he…
— Paulo Coelho
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Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the…
— Jean Batten
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None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with…
— Pearl S. Buck
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