Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes about Home

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If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Home, Joy, Suffering

Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.144, Hachette UK

You can go home again...so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Home, Long

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

I know that nobody who hasn't been in battle or under attack can know what war is. But even in terms of being safe at home, it's also true that many Americans who think they know what being at war is, don't. Including, of course, George W. Bush and his people. They don't have a clue.

Ursula K. Le Guin

War, Home, Thinking

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Those who dislike fantasy are very often equally bored or repelled by science. They don't like either hobbits, or quasars; they don't feel at home with them; they don't want complexities, remoteness. If there is any such connection, I'll bet that it is basically an aesthetic one

Ursula K. Le Guin

Home, Bored, Connections

Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.26, Ultramarine Publishing