"The hunger of a dragon is slow to…" — Ursula K. Le Guin

"The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate."

— 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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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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Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've… — Jo Brand
Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon. — Steven Brust
Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon… — Madeleine Albright
It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's… — Tori Amos
Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded. — Sandra Day O'Connor
Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot… — Audre Lorde
Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and… — A. Whitney Brown
I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40… — Don Bluth
On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon. — Steven Pressfield

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