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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
– Ursula K Le Guin

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  2. For how long is there a superior? For as long as one makes mistakes. When mistakes cease to happen, there will be no superior thereafter. – Dada Bhagwan
  3. But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory? – Jeanette Winterson
  4. Character is just an invention, but it’s an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. – Broken Verses – Kamila Shamsie
  5. P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty – Ivan Illich
  6. Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. – Herman Wouk
  7. Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition. – David D Friedman
  8. …if good is defined as something else, it is then impossible either to prove that any other definition is wrong or even to deny such definition. – GE Moore
  9. Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction. – H L Mencken
  10. Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men. – Friedrich Nietzsche
  11. There is no break in the wholeness of time. – Ursula K Le Guin
  12. The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. – Ursula K Le Guin
  13. The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction. – Ursula K Le Guin
  14. I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end. – Ursula K Le Guin
  15. Nobody who says, -˜I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. – Ursula K Le Guin
  16. The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. – Ursula K Le Guin
  17. The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. – Ursula K Le Guin
  18. You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. – Ursula K Le Guin
  19. I know perfectly well he’s a god, too. But what I think is he’ll be much godlier after he’s dead. – Ursula K Le Guin
  20. Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your mind, to buy safety? – Ursula K Le Guin
  21. Power inheres in a center. You’re going to the center. – Ursula K Le Guin
  22. You don’t speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them. – Ursula K Le Guin
  23. But you’re so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating. – Ursula K Le Guin
  24. To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well. – Ursula K Le Guin
  25. Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic. – Ursula K Le Guin
  26. The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma. – Ursula K Le Guin
  27. It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. – Ursula K Le Guin
  28. 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. – Ursula K Le Guin
  29. Not even need and love can defeat fate… – Ursula K Le Guin
  30. 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. – Ursula K Le Guin
  31. Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment. – Ursula K Le Guin
  32. But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity. – Ursula K Le Guin
  33. The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well. – Ursula K Le Guin
  34. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. – Ursula K Le Guin
  35. Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience – Ursula K Le Guin
  36. To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. – Ursula K Le Guin
  37. Orr slept. He dreamed. There was no rub. – Ursula K Le Guin
  38. The premise is: everybody’s like me and we all think alike.The corollary is: people who don’t think like me don’t matter. – Ursula K Le Guin
  39. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. – Ursula K Le Guin
  40. The strength of Shevek’s personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable. – Ursula K Le Guin

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