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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

    Fact is one of our finest fictions.
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  2. Ursula K. Le Guin _ A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

    I'm a lazy man. With lazy dreams. I need Tai to wake me up, make me vibrate, irritate me. I need my angry woman, my unforgiving friend.
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  3. Ursula K. Le Guin _ A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

    Tezyeme," he said, which meant something on the order of "it is happening the way it is supposed to happen.
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  4. Ursula K. Le Guin _ A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

    Hideo," said my mother, in the terrifying way women have of passing without interval from one subject to another because they have them all present in their mind at once, "you haven't found any kind of relationship?"
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  5. Ursula K. Le Guin _ A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

    We make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build up the world with it. Babies do it, we all do it; we filter out most of what our senses report.
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  6. Ursula K. Le Guin _ A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

    Students are intense people, they laugh and cry, they break down and rebuild.
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  7. Ursula K. Le Guin _ A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

    I always grow poetic when I am lying to myself.
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  8. Ursula K. Le Guin _ A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

    Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval {...}
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  9. Ursula K. Le Guin _ A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

    I found out I was in love with you, winter before last," she said. "I wasn't going to say anything about it because - well, you know. If you'd felt anything like that for me, you'd have known I did. But it wasn't both of us. So there was no good in it. But then, when you told us you're leaving ... At first I thought, all the more reason to say nothing. But then I thought, that wouldn't be fair. To me, partly. Love has a right to be spoken. And you have a right to know that somebody loves you. That somebody has loved you, could love you. We all need to know that. {...}
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