She'll die.'
'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

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It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.

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A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

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A 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.

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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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Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

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The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.

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Also by me: this screenplay adaptation of the #UrsulaLeGuin #Earthsea novel, THE TOMBS OF ATUAN. www.AuthorFreeman.com/atuan

Reposts of strips from my first-term collection (www.Trumpbert.com) most weekdays. New strips every Sunday.

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If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.

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Do 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.

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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.

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One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.

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The light is the left hand of darkness

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What is more arrogant than honesty?

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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.

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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

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Do you know how to read?'
'No. It is one of the black arts.'
He nodded. 'But a useful one,' he said.

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To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.

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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

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