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Ursula K. Le Guin

"The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words."

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"The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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"He laid his hands on her head, pushing back the hood. He began to speak. His voice was soft, and the words were in no tongue she had ever heard. The sound of them came into her heart like rain falling. She grew still to listen."
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"I do not care what comes after, I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning."
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"We're not outside the world... We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see? If we don't say the words, what is their in our world?"
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"She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive."
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"Was he leaving home, or going home?"
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"He began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark. In the Creation of Ea, which is the oldest song, it is said, 'Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky."
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"We came, Takver thought, from a great distance to each other. We have always done so. Over great distances, over years, over abysses of chance. It is because he comes from so far away that nothing can separate us. Nothing, no distances, no years, can be greater than the distance that's already between us, the distance of our sex, the differences of our being, our minds; that gap, that abyss which we bridge with a look, with a touch, with a word, the easiest thing in the world. Look how far away he is, asleep. Look how far away he is, he always is. But he comes back, he comes back, he comes back...."
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"I have this, this gift, I know that; and I know my obligation to it."
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"The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women."
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