Ursula K. Le Guin idézetek
Ursula K. Le Guin: Idézetek angolul
Forrás: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 3, "Hort Town" (Ged)
“The Finder” (p. 66)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
Forrás: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 5 “Rejoining” (p. 281)
“In our minds, lad. In our minds. The traitor, the self; the self that cries I want to live; let the world burn so long as I can live! The little traitor soul in us, in the dark, like the worm in the apple.”
Forrás: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Arren and Ged)
“What harm have the trees done them?”
he said. “Must they punish the grass for their own faults? Men are savages, who would set a land afire because they have a quarrel with other men.”
Forrás: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Arren)
“In the end, the truth usually insists upon serving only the common good,” Keng said.
“In the end, yes, but I am not willing to wait for the end. I have one lifetime, and I will not spend it for greed and profiteering and lies. I will not serve any master.
Forrás: Hainish Cycle, The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 11 (pp. 345-346)
“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.”
“Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical.”
Forrás: Hainish Cycle, The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 7 (p. 220)
Right now, I think we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. The profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable; so did the divine right of kings. … Power can be resisted and changed by human beings; resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words. I’ve had a long career and a good one, in good company, and here, at the end of it, I really don’t want to watch American literature get sold down the river. ... The name of our beautiful reward is not profit. Its name is freedom.
National Book Awards, November 2014 https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/national-book-awards-ursula-le-guin
Imaginary Countries (p. 204; first published in The Harvard Advocate (Winter 1973)
Short fiction, Orsinian Tales (1976)
The Lady of Moge (p. 183)
Short fiction, Orsinian Tales (1976)
“I was afraid I’d fail. So I didn’t work.”
Brothers and Sisters (p. 93; first published in The Little Magazine (1976) Vol. 10, Nos. 1 & 2)
Short fiction, Orsinian Tales (1976)
Ile Forest (p. 29)
Short fiction, Orsinian Tales (1976)
The House (p. 176)
Short fiction, Orsinian Tales (1976)
An die Musik (pp. 159-160; first published in The Western Humanities Review (1961) Vol. 15, No. 3)
Short fiction, Orsinian Tales (1976)
“The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.”
Forrás: Hainish Cycle, The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 13
