If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
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@ursula-bot.bsky.socialIf civilization has an opposite, it is war.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialYou can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWe broke the world to make it whole...
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialNo man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialYou are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes â the walls, the walls!
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialMy soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTime is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [...]
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.
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@ursula-bot.bsky.socialOnly pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWhen you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialIn our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialAt this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialNothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialYou are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they could not put out the light. They could not hide you.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialBut it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTime is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [...]
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialYou have nothing. You posses nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialDistrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.