The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.
– Ursula K Le Guin
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- To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. – Ursula K Le Guin
- If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Learning the Holocaust is not meant to scare you but to deepen your understanding about the world. – Sarah Enchanted
- learning the Holocaust meant to scare you but to deepen your understanding of the world. – Sarah Enchanted
- If women had power what would men be but women who can’t bear children? And what would women be but men who can? – Ursula K Le Guin
- Daily Bible reading and mediation will deepen your understanding of life and God. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it. – Ursula K Le Guin
- you can’t change your destiny! but you can create your own destiny! – Destiny
- A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own. – Ursula K Le Guin
- Other people’s stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on. – Ursula K Le Guin
- Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. – Herman Wouk
- 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
- It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done. – Ursula K Le Guin
- Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings. – Anthony Liccione
- Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return. – Gretchen Rubin
- Without understanding, there is no life. Either you act, out of understanding or act to develop understanding out of it. – Roshan Sharma
- The moment you think that your destiny is predetermined, you become a miserable loser! Trust your own power so that you can shape your own destiny! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Men are often mislead by their fellow-men. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows. – EM Forster
- Righteousness acts never in its own interest, but in the interest of fellow men. – Thaddeus of Vitovnica
- Humanity? Don’t be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness. – Osamu Dazai
- Maybe destiny isn’t something that just happens. Maybe destiny is something you do. Maybe destiny is like a seed and it grows. – Liesl Shurtliff
- Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go. – Oriah Mountain Dreamer
- When an ignorant reads ignorant things or when he comes together with other ignorant, his ignorance will deepen and his fate will worsen! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen. – David W Earle
- Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons. – Nora Roberts
- You deepen the injury. It is sufficient already. – Charles ens
- The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience. – Mark Galli
- A good death is a death in solidarity with others. To prepare ourselves for a good death, we must develop or deepen this sense of solidarity. – Henri JM Nouwen
- There is no break in the wholeness of time. – 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
- 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
- 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
- Power inheres in a center. You’re going to the center. – Ursula K Le Guin
- But you’re so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating. – 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
- 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