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Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes - Page 6

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.514, Simon and Schuster

Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.

Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

The more defensive a society, the more conformist.

Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions”, p.321, Macmillan

It is useless work that darkens the heart.

"The Dispossessed". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974.

Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.

Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.130, Hachette UK

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

"The Word for World Is Forest". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1972.

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

Ursula K. Le Guin (2018). “Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.441, Hachette UK

Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it.

Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “Very Far Away from Anywhere Else”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt