The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
Ursula K. Le Guin
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.”
“In war everybody is a prisoner.”
“I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . . . Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.”
“In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting. ”
“I go on writing in both respectable and despised genres because I respect them all, rejoice in their differences, and reject only the prejudice and ignorance that dismisses any book, unread, as not worth reading." -- "On Despising Genres," essay”
“Nothing in the world has tentacles or fins or paws or claws. Nothing in the world soars. Nothing swims. Nothing purrs, barks, growls, roars, chitters, trills, or cries repeatedly two notes, a descending fourth, for three months of the year. There are no months of the year. There is no moon. There is no year.”
“I learned that the story has no beginning, and no story has an end. That the story is all muddle, all middle. That the story is never true, but that the lie is indeed a child of silence.”
“she had never known who she was at all, except sometimes for a moment in meditation, when her I am became It is, and she breathed the stars”
“IF NOTHING IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM YOU, WHAT IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM YOU IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM YOU”
“History must be what we have escaped from. It is what we were, not what we are. History is what we need never do again.”
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story, essays, homogeneity, truth, individuality, diversity, science-fiction, lie, narrative, silence, difference, complexity, identity
