Quotes from le guin ursula k vi

The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.

It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the craft and after it, is some essential durable core of being, which is what the craft works on, and shows, and sets free. The statue in the stone. How does the artist find that, see it, before it's visible? That is a real question.

It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

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.

A realist is a man who knows both the world and his own dreams.

They had learned that the act of violence is the act of weakness, and that the spirit's strength lies in holding fast to the truth.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

Greed puts out the sun.

He arrived at ideas the slow way, never skating over the clear, hard ice of logic, nor soaring on the slipstreams of imagination, but slogging, plodding along on the heavy ground of existence. He did not see the connections, which is said to be the hallmark of intellect. He felt connections--like a plumber.

I don't think science fiction is a very good name for it, but it's the name that we've got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own. But where I can get prickly and combative is if I'm just called a sci-fi writer. I'm not. I'm a novelist and poet. Don't shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don't fit, because I'm all over. My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.

Go to bed; tired is stupid.

There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.