Ursula K. Le Guin

Oracular ambiguity or statical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#foretellers #prophecies #faith

it is as if i were dead, and this is the after-life, her in the sunlight, beyond the edge of the world, among the sons and daughters of the sea. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#life

On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on your drinnk between drafts, hot beer is a thing you come to appreciate. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#humour #science-fiction #science

If women had power what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can? ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#power #women #men

For discipline is the channel in which our acts run strong and deep; where there is no direction, the deeds of men run shallow and wander and are wasted. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#men

We men dream dreams, we work magic, we do good, we do evil. The dragons do not dream. They are dreams. They do not work magic: it is their substance, their being. They do not do; they are. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#dreams

They praised his modesty and did not listen to him, for listening is a rare gift, and men will have their heroes. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#men

At the pit's bottom is no anger. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#anger

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#childhood #coming-of-age #earthsea #age

When all ways are lost the way is clear. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#life