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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Very Far Away from Anywhere

    It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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  2. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Very Far Away from Anywhere

    The question was where to start. Where to build up a solid foundation of knowledge on which you could balance ideas. It wasn't exactly a modest ambition. But what I had learned from Natalie was that you could have a very immodest ambition if you went after it methodically.
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  3. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Very Far Away from Anywhere

    The really terrible thing about being young is the triviality
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  4. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Very Far Away from Anywhere

    She said it seemed like the only choices offered were to want to be what other people were, or to be what other people wanted you to be.
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  5. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Very Far Away from Anywhere

    We didn't talk about problems, or parents, or automobiles, or ambitions. We talked about life....And the sea was there, forty feet away and getting closer, and the sky over the sea, and the sun going down the sky. And it was cold, and it was the high point of my life. I'd had high points before.Once at night walking in the park in the rain in autumn.Once out in the desert, under the stars, when I turned into the earth turning on its axis. Sometimes thinking, just thinking things through.But always alone. By myself.This time I was not alone. I was on the high mountain with a friend. There is nothing, there is nothing that beats that. If it never happens again in my life, still I can say I was there once.
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  6. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Very Far Away from Anywhere

    And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.
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  7. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Very Far Away from Anywhere

    The trouble is, women have to be absolutely first class to get where third-class men get.
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  8. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Very Far Away from Anywhere

    Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it.
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  9. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Very Far Away from Anywhere

    I think what you mostly do when you find you really are alone is to panic. You rush to the opposite extreme and pack yourself into groups - clubs, teams, societies, types. You suddenly start dressing exactly like the others. It's a way of being invisible. The way you sew the patches on the holes in your blue jeans becomes incredibly important. If you do it wrong you're not with it. That's a peculiar phrase, you know? With it. With what? With them. With the others. All together. Safety in numbers. I'm not me. I'm a basketball letter. I'm a popular kid. I'm my friend's friend. I'm a black leather growth on a Honda. I'm a member. I'm a teenager. You can't see me, all you can see is us. We're safe. And if We see You standing alone by yourself, if you're lucky we'll ignore you. If you're not lucky, we might throw rocks. Because we don't like people standing there with the wrong kind of patches on their jeans reminding us that we're each alone and none of us is safe.
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