I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?

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This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.

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If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,

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You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

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To be whole is to be part;
true voyage is return.

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I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

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There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.

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What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

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And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.

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Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

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Without war there are no heroes."

"What harm would that be?"

"Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.

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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

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"What happens every day is what's surprising. The treasure's never where I look to find it but where I simply look - the sky, the wind, a sunrise, a silver arc, the moment's chance."

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There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

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The 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.

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StoryMachine is going analogue thanks to the 3D printers in the MakerSpace, University of London School of Advanced Study.

Finally got this prototype of a printing block with the project logo looking decent

and found a lovely #UrsulaKLeGuin allusion in the process

Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn.

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Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

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We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

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