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The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin QUOTES

The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin QUOTES

1 " I learned that the story has no beginning, and no story has an end. That the story is all muddle, all middle. That the story is never true, but that the lie is indeed a child of silence. By "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

2 " No normal human being who had experienced time-slippage of even a few decades between League worlds would volunteer for a round trip of centuries. The Surveyors were escapists, misfits. They were nuts. Ten "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

3 " We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone. Hidden "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

4 " A key is a little thing next to the door that it opens. If you lose the key, the door may never be unlocked. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

5 " What can you do to evil but refuse it? Not pretend it isn’t there, but look at it, and know it, and refuse it. Punishment, what is punishment? Getting even, schoolboy stuff. The Bible God, vengeance is mine! And then it flips over and goes too far the other way, forgive them for they know not what they do. Who does know? I don’t. But I have tried to know. I don’t forgive a person who doesn’t try to know, doesn’t want to know if he does evil or not. I think in their heart they know what they do, and do it because it is in their power to do it. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

6 " We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

7 " If I turned left, east, I could look up a little, and I could see how the rain came, not only in waves as I often see it from the windows of the house, but spaced and crowded together to form columns, like tall white women, immense wraiths hurrying one after another endlessly northward up the beach, as fast as the wind and yet solemn, processional, great grave beings hurrying by. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

8 " Unless physical action reflects psychic action, unless the deeds express the person, I get very bored with adventure stories; often it seems that the more action there is, the less happens. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

9 " No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is a part of the whole knowledge. A true line, a true color. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

10 " To Otter this conversation was, again, like walking forward in a vast darkness with a small lamp. Anieb’s understanding was that lamp. Each step revealed the next step he must take, but he could never see the place where he was. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

11 " I think there’s an evil in us, in humankind. Trust denies it. Leaps across it. Leaps the chasm. But it’s there. And everything we do finally serves evil, because that’s what we are. Greed and cruelty. I look at the world, at the forests and the mountain here, the sky, and it’s all right, as it should be. But we aren’t. People aren’t. We’re wrong. We do wrong. No animal does wrong. How could they? But we can, and we do. And we never stop. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin