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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.

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

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  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don’t let stress steal your joy. – Sarra Cannon
  5. 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
  6. The line of head is strong, but the line of heart is weak. And most importantly, the line of life is short. The stars do not seem to be right. – Vikas Swarup
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  8. 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
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  10. a book is a box of words until you open it. – Ursula K Le Guin
  11. A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest. – Ursula K Le Guin
  12. 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
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  14. 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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  23. 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
  24. Nobody who says, -˜I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. – Ursula K Le Guin
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  26. 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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  28. 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
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  32. 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
  33. Was he leaving home, or going home? – Ursula K Le Guin
  34. A psychopathy on Anarres was rational behavior on Urras. – Ursula K Le Guin
  35. But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity. – Ursula K Le Guin
  36. It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done. – Ursula K Le Guin
  37. Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience – Ursula K Le Guin
  38. To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. – Ursula K Le Guin
  39. His eyes saved him. What they insisted on seeing and reporting to him took him out of the autism of terror. – Ursula K Le Guin
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