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Was he leaving home, or going home?

Was he leaving home, or going home?
– Ursula K Le Guin

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  1. You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been. – Ursula K Le Guin
  2. The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear. – Camilla Gibb
  3. There is no break in the wholeness of time. – Ursula K Le Guin
  4. 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
  5. The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction. – Ursula K Le Guin
  6. 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
  7. Nobody who says, -˜I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. – Ursula K Le Guin
  8. The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. – Ursula K Le Guin
  9. The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. – Ursula K Le Guin
  10. 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
  11. Odo said it all her life. ‘Only peace brings peace, only just acts bring justice! – Ursula K Le Guin
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. Power inheres in a center. You’re going to the center. – Ursula K Le Guin
  15. You don’t speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them. – Ursula K Le Guin
  16. But you’re so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating. – Ursula K Le Guin
  17. 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
  18. Belief in the lie is the life of the lie. – Ursula K Le Guin
  19. Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic. – Ursula K Le Guin
  20. The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma. – Ursula K Le Guin
  21. It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. – Ursula K Le Guin
  22. 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
  23. Not even need and love can defeat fate… – Ursula K Le Guin
  24. Fish and visitors stink after three days. – Ursula K Le Guin
  25. To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. – Ursula K Le Guin
  26. 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
  27. Heaven and earthbegin in the unnamed:name’s the motherof the ten thousand things. – Ursula K Le Guin
  28. Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment. – Ursula K Le Guin
  29. They let us be, here, in the cage of our ignorance. – Ursula K Le Guin
  30. But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity. – Ursula K Le Guin
  31. 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
  32. A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own. – Ursula K Le Guin
  33. 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
  34. With eye and hand and breath and will. – 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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