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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ From Elfland to Poughkeepsie

    Let us consider Elfland as a great national park, a vast and beautiful place where a person goes by himself, on foot, to get in touch with reality in a special, private, profound fashion. But what happens when it is considered merely as a place to "get away to"?Well, you know what has happened to Yosemite. Everybody comes, not with an ax and a box of matches, but in a trailer with a motorbike on the back and a motorboat on top and a butane stove, five aluminum folding chairs, and a transistor radio on the inside. They arrive totally encapsulated in a secondhand reality. And then they move on to Yellowstone, and it's just the same there, all trailers and transistors. They go from park to park, but they never really go anywhere; except when one of them who thinks that even the wildlife isn't real gets chewed up by a genuine, firsthand bear.The same sort of thing seems to be happening to Elfland, lately.
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  2. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Catwings

    Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry.""Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are kind.
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  3. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Secret History of Fantasy

    I want to say to the literature teacher who remains wilfully, even boastfully ignorant of a major element of contemporary fiction: you are incompetent to teach or judge your subject. Readers and students who do know the field, meanwhile, have every right to challenge your ignorant prejudice. Rise, undergraduates of the English departments! You have nothing to lose but your A on the midterm!
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  4. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Tombs of Atuan

    They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they {...} become dust and bone, and their ghosts whine on the wind a little while till the wind blows them away. They do not have immortal souls.
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  5. Ursula K. LeGuin _ A Wizard of Earthsea

    For magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing.
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  6. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Tombs of Atuan

    Am I supposed to feel so much awe and so on about the Godking? After all, he's just a man ... He's about fifty years old, and he's bald. And I'll bet he has to cut his toenails too like any other man. I know perfectly well he's a god, too. But what I think is, he'll be much godlier after he's dead.
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  7. Ursula K. Le Guin _ A Wizard of Earthsea

    The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written {or rewritten for children} in England and northern Europe. The principal characters were men. If the story was heroic, the hero was a white man; most dark-skinned people were inferior or evil. If there was a woman in the story, she was a passive object of desire and rescue {a beautiful blond princess}; active women {dark, witches} usually caused destruction or tragedy. Anyway, the stories weren't about the women. They were about men, what men did, and what was important to men.
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  8. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Farthest Shore

    Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your mind, to buy safety?
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  9. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Dispossessed

    Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her.
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  10. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Tales from Earthsea

    It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.
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  11. Suzannah Rowntree _ Pendragon's Heir

    That night she dreamed about the King again. She stood in a riverside meadow between greenwood and castle. Overhead the sun shone gilt in a sky like powdered lapis and struck golden sparks from the King's blood-red dragon banner.
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  12. Laura Kreitzer _ Fallen Legion

    We want to fight.""And I want J.K. Rowling to keep writing in the Potterverse, but I know that's never going to happen," I said blithely.
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