12 Quotes & Sayings By Ursula K Leguin

Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, in 1929, and grew up in Portland, Oregon. She received a B.A. from the University of Oregon and a master's degree from Radcliffe College in 1953, and is the author of numerous novels, short stories, essays, poetry, translations, and children's books Read more

Her most recent works include The Lathe of Heaven (1971) and The Dispossessed (1974).

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To oppose something is to maintain it. Ursula K. LeGuin
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You must not change one thing one pebble one grain of sand until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. Ursula K. LeGuin
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next. Ursula K. LeGuin
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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear. Ursula K. LeGuin
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. Ursula K. LeGuin
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When action grows unprofitable gather information when information grows unprofitable sleep. Ursula K. LeGuin
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Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing if not carcinogenic. Ursula K. LeGuin
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The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones the thick ones the ones with no doors in. Ursula K. LeGuin
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth as human truth all the maps change. There are new mountains. Ursula K. LeGuin
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It is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters in the end. Ursula K. LeGuin
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A person who believes ... that there is a whole of which one is a part and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever at any time to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it. Ursula K. LeGuin