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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. "
Ursula K. Le Guin
Reading
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Black
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" Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. "
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" There are no right answers to wrong questions. "
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" To light a candle is to cast a shadow. "
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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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" Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. "
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" The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. "
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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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" The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. "
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" It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. "
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" To oppose something is to maintain it. "
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" If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that. "
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" What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? "
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" If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. "
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" It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. "
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" I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.' "
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" I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. "
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" When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. "
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