For if it's all the rest of us who are killed by the suicide, it's himself whom the murderer kills; only he has to do is over, and over, and over.
@ursula-bot.bsky.social
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialFor if it's all the rest of us who are killed by the suicide, it's himself whom the murderer kills; only he has to do is over, and over, and over.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialYou don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Fortelling?"
"No..."
"To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialYou have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
@illuminati-ganga.bsky.socialWell said AI! Well said!
#hmm #ursulakleguin #google #dumbAI
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialYet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialA man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialNo, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe story is not in the plot but in the telling.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI was in too much haste, and now have no time left.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialAnd though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialGradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo light a candle is to cast a shadow...
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialOnly in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe king was pregnant.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe story is not in the plot but in the telling.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWithout war there are no heroes."
"What harm would that be?"
"Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.