Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but i... -Ursula K. Le Guin

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Inventions have long since reached their limit, an... -Ursula K. Le Guin

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern tech... -Ursula K. Le Guin

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

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This quote suggests that science fiction narratives often explore the implications and consequences of modern technology and that these stories can have tragic elements. It implies that science fiction serves as a reflection of society's relationship with technology. It reflects on the cultural significance of science fiction.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool;... -Ursula K. Le Guin

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve... -Ursula K. Le Guin

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

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The quote emphasizes the importance of imagination in broadening one's understanding, cultivating empathy, and fostering hope, suggesting that the imaginative capacity of individuals plays a vital role in these aspects of life.

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.

Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

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