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Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.

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

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  2. Nobody who says, -˜I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. – Ursula K Le Guin
  3. If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do. – Ursula K Le Guin
  4. I like slang words, straight to the point. I like words of wisdom, straight to the heart. – Toba Beta
  5. They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets – Darnell Lamont Walker
  6. When Douglas walked, his mind ran, when he ran, his mind walked. – Ray Bradbury
  7. The path of true love never ran smooth. More likely you ran out of gas, blew a tire, and hit the wall before you crossed the finish line. – Erin McCarthy
  8. Some trees grow straight, while others grow gnarled and twisted. Yet none are imperfect. Perfection is merely a perception. – Donald L Hicks
  9. Odo said it all her life. ‘Only peace brings peace, only just acts bring justice! – Ursula K Le Guin
  10. The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  11. Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it – Ursula K Le Guin
  12. a book is a box of words until you open it. – Ursula K Le Guin
  13. I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I write. – Ursula K Le Guin
  14. Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying? – Mopelola Adeniyi
  15. So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve. – Ursula K Le Guin
  16. She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines. – Nenia Campbell
  17. How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs? – Mango Wodzak
  18. I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me. – Haruki Murakami
  19. Control said nothing, had said nothing for quite some time as if he didn’t trust words anymore. Or had begun to cherish the answers silence gave him. – Jeff VanderMeer
  20. Ran out of things to say, metaphors for you. Why the ocean’s clear instead of blue, why mountains in the distance had reminded me of you. – Dominic Riccitello
  21. The way I see it, if everybody ran from bad things instead of trying to stop them, bad things would be all there is. – Homer Hickam
  22. There was enough ice.So I thought. For my drink.When I used it all,I cut her heart out and used it instead.I never ran out of ice that night. – Mrinaal
  23. There is no break in the wholeness of time. – Ursula K Le Guin
  24. The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction. – Ursula K Le Guin
  25. 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
  26. The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. – Ursula K Le Guin
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. Power inheres in a center. You’re going to the center. – Ursula K Le Guin
  31. But you’re so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating. – Ursula K Le Guin
  32. 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
  33. Fish and visitors stink after three days. – Ursula K Le Guin
  34. 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
  35. Was he leaving home, or going home? – Ursula K Le Guin
  36. A psychopathy on Anarres was rational behavior on Urras. – Ursula K Le Guin
  37. But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity. – Ursula K Le Guin
  38. Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience – Ursula K Le Guin
  39. To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. – 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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