Ursula K. Le Guin Bot
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This is a bot that posts a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin every 2 hours. Was ursulabot on twitter
The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
December 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
I’ll take you to Havnor and say to the princes of Earthsea, “Look! In the place of darkness I found the light, her spirit. By her an old evil was brought to nothing. By her I was brought out of the grave. By her the broken was made whole, and where there was hatred there will be peace.”
December 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I’ll take you to Havnor and say to the princes of Earthsea, “Look! In the place of darkness I found the light, her spirit. By her an old evil was brought to nothing. By her I was brought out of the grave. By her the broken was made whole, and where there was hatred there will be peace.”
He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.
December 27, 2025 at 7:05 AM
He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.
A man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life’s sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.
December 27, 2025 at 5:08 AM
A man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life’s sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.
Falcon-winged, falcon-mad, like an unfalling arrow, like an unforgotten thought.
December 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Falcon-winged, falcon-mad, like an unfalling arrow, like an unforgotten thought.
She spoke if in trance, rapture. Manan watched her. His slabby face never expressed much but stolid, careful sadness; it was sadder than usual now. “Well, and you're mistress of all that,” he said. “The silence, and the dark.”
December 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
She spoke if in trance, rapture. Manan watched her. His slabby face never expressed much but stolid, careful sadness; it was sadder than usual now. “Well, and you're mistress of all that,” he said. “The silence, and the dark.”
The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.
December 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.
The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.
December 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
December 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do.
December 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do.
The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
December 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
December 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
“They will fear her,” Tenar whispered.
December 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
“They will fear her,” Tenar whispered.
She found that their company revived her, carried her away from the constant presence of last night's terror, little by little, till she could begin to look back on it as something that had happened, not something that was happening, that must always be happening to her.
December 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
She found that their company revived her, carried her away from the constant presence of last night's terror, little by little, till she could begin to look back on it as something that had happened, not something that was happening, that must always be happening to her.
I know perfectly well he's a god, too. But what I think is, he'll be much godlier after he's dead.
December 26, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I know perfectly well he's a god, too. But what I think is, he'll be much godlier after he's dead.
I was dying of thirst when you gave me water, yet it was not the water alone that saved me. It was the strength of the hands that gave it.
December 26, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I was dying of thirst when you gave me water, yet it was not the water alone that saved me. It was the strength of the hands that gave it.
The sea spoke forever, but its language was foreign to her. She did not understand.
December 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The sea spoke forever, but its language was foreign to her. She did not understand.
If we hide, Therru, we feed him. We will eat. And we will starve him.
December 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
If we hide, Therru, we feed him. We will eat. And we will starve him.
The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
December 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
But when a direction is chosen freely and followed wholeheartedly, it may seem that all things further the going.
December 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
But when a direction is chosen freely and followed wholeheartedly, it may seem that all things further the going.
She never saw why something could not be. Another reason he loved her.
December 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
She never saw why something could not be. Another reason he loved her.
And he would watch the snow falling, thin and ceaseless, on the empty lands below the window, and feel the dull cold grow within him, till it seemed no feeling was left to him except a kind of weariness.
December 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
And he would watch the snow falling, thin and ceaseless, on the empty lands below the window, and feel the dull cold grow within him, till it seemed no feeling was left to him except a kind of weariness.
To enter with heart and mind into the world of the imagination may be to head deliberately and directly toward, or back toward, engagement with the real world.
December 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
To enter with heart and mind into the world of the imagination may be to head deliberately and directly toward, or back toward, engagement with the real world.
The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
December 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do.
December 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do.