“There’s seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.”
Source: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 1 “Mending the Green Pitcher” (p. 8)
Ursula K. Le Guin: 292 citations0 J'aime
Ursula K. Le Guin: Citations en anglais
The Question I Get Asked Most Often in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)
““Why are you always so full of answers?”
“Because life’s so full of questions.””
Ursula K. Le Guin livre The Eye of the Heron
Source: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 2 (p. 26)
“No, I don’t understand him, but he is worth listening to.”
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 3, "Hort Town"
“The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.”
Ursula K. Le Guin livre The Lathe of Heaven
Source: The Lathe of Heaven (1971), Chapter 6
Source: Earthsea Books, The Tombs of Atuan (1971), Chapter 12, "Voyage"
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” p. 255 (originally published in New Dimensions 3, edited by Robert Silverberg)
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)
Ursula K. Le Guin livre The Lathe of Heaven
Source: The Lathe of Heaven (1971), Chapter 9 (Haber)
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, Rocannon’s World (1966), Chapter 2
“The solution lies in secrecy,” said Medra. “But so does the problem.”
“The Finder” (p. 64)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
“Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.”
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 8 “Another Way into Orgoreyn” (p. 118)
Ursula K. Le Guin livre Four Ways to Forgiveness
"A Woman's Liberation", p. 184
Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)
“Heal the Wound, Cure the illness, but let the Dying spirit go”
Source: Earthsea Books, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Chapter 5
"A Message About Messages" in CBC Magazine https://web.archive.org/web/20051128074549/http://www.cbcbooks.org/cbcmagazine/meet/leguin_ursula_k.html
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 5 “The Domestication of Hunch” (p. 55)
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 7 (pp. 201-202)
Source: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 8, "Hawks"
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 11 “Soliloquies in Mishnory” (p. 151)
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 11 (pp. 345-346)
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 8 “Another Way into Orgoreyn” (p. 118)
“Darkrose and Diamond” (p. 110)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, Rocannon’s World (1966), Chapter 9
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 1 (pp. 1–2)
Source: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 12, "Winter"
“A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.”
Source: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 8, "Hawks"
“O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn’t then.”
Foreward (p. xiii)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 7 “The Question of Sex” (p. 95)
“Going was easy. Keep on going was hard.”
Ursula K. Le Guin livre The Eye of the Heron
Source: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 7 (p. 95)
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 5 (p. 127)
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Telling (2000), Ch. 4, §3 (p. 109)
