@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.socialTo hear, one must be silent.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialFreedom is never very safe.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialDistrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
@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.socialWhat goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.
@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.socialThe law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialYou cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialIf your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,
@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.socialTo make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialFor a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialShe'll die.'
'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialBut need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
@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.socialWhen action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe artist deals with what cannot be said in words.
The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWhile we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.