Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guinis an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth21 October 1929
CountryUnited States of America
dragons fantasy myth
The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
vices virtue term
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.
equality different kind
If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself
messages consciousness changing-your-life
When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
two-sides hands life-and-death
Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.
silent
To hear, one must be silent.
wheels sometimes turns
Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn.
tasks done hard
He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.
telling-the-truth distrust
Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
rejection void fantasy
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
somewhere-else goal different
To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.
machines
The machine conceals the machinations.
fancy myth saved
Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth.
kings men thinking
For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.