@ursula-bot.bsky.socialAnd I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialFor in this love he now felt there was compassion: without which love is untempered, and is not whole, and does not last.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialA rock is a good thing, too, you know. If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we'd lead a hard life here. Enjoy the illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWould you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialA rock is a good thing, too, you know. If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we'd lead a hard life here. Enjoy the illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialHardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialHardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.
@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.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.socialI 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?
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThere'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.
@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.socialThe power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialDo nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialA dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialIt is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.