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Book: The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin
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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Found and the Lost: The

    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.
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  2. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Found and the Lost: The

    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.
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  3. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Found and the Lost: The

    We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.
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  4. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Found and the Lost: The

    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.
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  5. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Found and the Lost: The

    A key is a little thing next to the door that it opens. If you lose the key, the door may never be unlocked.
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  6. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Found and the Lost: The

    We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone. Hidden
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    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
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  8. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Found and the Lost: The

    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
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