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Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?

Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?

Ursula K. Le Guin
Hope, Heart, Ambition
URSULA K. LE GUIN (1976). “THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS”

It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Art, Ambition, Men
Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.488, Simon and Schuster

It's probably simply a matter of temperament that I never stopped to wonder if I could "match" what I had done, never choked off my writing by competing with myself, or with anybody else for that matter. My ambition was absolutely centered on the work itself, never on what it would bring me, or "who" it would make me. I never cared about that at all.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Writing, Ambition, Done
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