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Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.

Other people’s stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.
– Ursula K Le Guin

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  3. A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own. – Ursula K Le Guin
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  5. 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
  6. What was and what may be lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we have is here, now. – Ursula K Le Guin
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  18. Nobody who says, -˜I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. – Ursula K Le Guin
  19. The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. – Ursula K Le Guin
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  22. 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
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  30. Was he leaving home, or going home? – Ursula K Le Guin
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  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
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  36. To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. – Ursula K Le Guin
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  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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