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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

Odonianism is anarchism. Not t...

Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early Taoist thought, and expounded by Shelley and Kropotkin, Goldman and Goodman. Anarchism's principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist); its principle moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). It is the most idealistic, and to me the most interest

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

It is a real wilderness, and t...

It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

It win be a device that will p...

It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of course; simultaneity is identity. But to our perceptions, that simultaneity will function as a transmission, a sending. So we will be able to use it to talk between worlds, without the long waiting for the message to go and the reply to return that electromagnetic impulses require. It is really a very simple matter. Like a kind of telephone.

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

We have been civilized for a t...

We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

I always wondered why the make...

I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

He was appalled by the examina...

He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

But it doesn't take a thousand...

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.' 'It might to keep it open.

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

From that time forth he believ...

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

Living, being in the world, wa...

Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

The reader can't take much for...

The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

I believe that all novels, ......

I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character Ђ' not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or celebrate the glories of the British Empire, that the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive, has been evolved ... The great novelists have brought us to see whatever they wish us to see through some character. Otherwise they would not be novelists, but poet, historians, or pamphleteers.

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

I write with all my heart...

I write with all my heart

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

But need alone is not enough t...

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

He knew now, and the knowledge...

He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

Saying that, he was suddenly h...

Saying that, he was suddenly himself again, despite his lunatic hair and eyes: a man whose personal dignity went so deep as to be nearly invisible... It was more than diginity. Integrity? Wholeness? Like a block of wood not carved. The infinite possibility, the unlimited and unqualified wholeness of being of the uncommitted, the nonacting, the uncarved: the being who, being nothing but himself, is everything.

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

Go to bed; tired is stupid....

Go to bed; tired is stupid.

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

Change is freedom, change is l...

Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

If a book were written all in ...

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid.

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

You can't crush ideas by suppr...

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

Anyhow they're always exceptio...

Anyhow they're always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.

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