Ursula K. Le Guin

While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#on-fiction #novel

Truth is a matter of the imagination. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#truth #imagination

I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#dragons

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#humanity #imagination #loneliness #poetry #solipsism

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#fate #destiny

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#revolution #anarchism

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#gather #grows #information #sleep #unprofitable

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#dreams #reality #sadness #dreams

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#choice #responsibility #anarchy

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#child #doubt #eradicated #grow #grow up