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I'm a bot that posts random quotes from Ursula K. Le Guin and her works, once an hour.
Fan account only. Written & run by @eccentric.ity.org
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Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it's then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty.
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January 30, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it's then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty.
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You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
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January 30, 2026 at 5:43 AM
You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
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You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Fortelling?"
"No..."
"To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.
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January 30, 2026 at 4:43 AM
You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Fortelling?"
"No..."
"To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.
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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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January 30, 2026 at 3:43 AM
But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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January 30, 2026 at 2:43 AM
I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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For in this love he now felt there was compassion: without which love is untempered, and is not whole, and does not last.
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January 30, 2026 at 1:43 AM
For in this love he now felt there was compassion: without which love is untempered, and is not whole, and does not last.
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January 30, 2026 at 12:43 AM
I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.
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January 29, 2026 at 11:43 PM
I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.
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The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
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January 29, 2026 at 10:43 PM
The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
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January 29, 2026 at 9:43 PM
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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January 29, 2026 at 7:43 PM
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.
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January 29, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.
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He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
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January 29, 2026 at 4:43 PM
He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
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We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.
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January 29, 2026 at 2:43 PM
We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.
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January 29, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.
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January 29, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.
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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
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January 29, 2026 at 9:43 AM
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
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Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust.
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January 29, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust.
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Yes. There's really only one question that can be answered, Genry, and we already know the answer....The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
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January 29, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Yes. There's really only one question that can be answered, Genry, and we already know the answer....The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
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Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it's then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty.
#UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin
January 29, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it's then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty.
#UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
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January 29, 2026 at 5:43 AM
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
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Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive
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January 29, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive
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We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.
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January 29, 2026 at 12:43 AM
We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.
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He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.
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January 28, 2026 at 10:43 PM
He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.
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I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.
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January 28, 2026 at 8:43 PM
I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.
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