Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

American writer of science fiction and fantasy books

Lived from: 1929 - 2018

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 21 october 1929 Died: 22 january 2018

  • Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.
  • In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.

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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.
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  • He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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  • If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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  • 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.
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  • In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
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  • Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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  • Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.
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  • Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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  • Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.
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  • The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
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  • The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.
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  • The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.
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  • The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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  • There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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  • To me the ''female principle'' is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
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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.
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  • When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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What are the most famous quotes from Ursula K. Le Guin?

The two most famous quotes from Ursula K. Le Guin are:

  • "My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
  • "He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral."

When did Ursula K. Le Guin live?

Ursula K. Le Guin was born in 1929 and died in the year 2018.