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Browsing Quotes By Ursula K. Le Guin

  • Free your mind of the idea of deserving, of the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.

    Speaker: Ursula K. Le Guin
    Source: The Dispossessed
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    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:30 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: class, pride, wealth, wisdom

  • How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one’s country; is it hate of one’s uncountry? Then it’s not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That’s a good thing, but one mustn’t make a virtue of it, or a profession… Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.

    Speaker: Ursula K. Le Guin
    Source: the Left Hand of Darkness
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    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 21 Sep 2013 at 7:13 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: hate, love, patriotism