He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God.
– Ursula K Le Guin
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- 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
- In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. – Ursula K Le Guin
- A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt. – Ursula K Le Guin
- The measure of space & time creates an echo of haunting distance between us, yet we are close, we are united in the love we forge together. – Truth Devour
- I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies – Johannes Kepler
- 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
- 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
- God is expecting us to stand in the gap between the dying earth and the heavens, for the will of God to be done on earth like it is in heaven – Sunday Adelaja
- — So this is the measure of your God’s Mercy.– No. This is the measure of Pharaoh’s soul. – The NT Translation Moses
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- There is no break in the wholeness of time. – Ursula K Le Guin
- 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
- The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction. – Ursula K Le Guin
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- Nobody who says, -˜I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. – Ursula K Le Guin
- The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. – Ursula K Le Guin
- The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. – Ursula K Le Guin
- 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
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- You don’t speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them. – Ursula K Le Guin
- But you’re so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating. – Ursula K Le Guin
- 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
- Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic. – Ursula K Le Guin
- The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma. – 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. – Ursula K Le Guin
- Fish and visitors stink after three days. – Ursula K Le Guin
- Was he leaving home, or going home? – Ursula K Le Guin
- 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
- Heaven and earthbegin in the unnamed:name’s the motherof the ten thousand things. – Ursula K Le Guin
- Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment. – Ursula K Le Guin
- But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity. – Ursula K Le Guin
- A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own. – Ursula K Le Guin
- 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
- Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience – Ursula K Le Guin
- To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. – Ursula K Le Guin
- Orr slept. He dreamed. There was no rub. – Ursula K Le Guin
- 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
- Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. – Ursula K Le Guin
- The strength of Shevek’s personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable. – Ursula K Le Guin