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Book: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Dancing at the Edge of the

    I am offered the Grand Inquisitor's choice. Will you choose freedom without happiness, or happiness without freedom? The only answer one can make, I think, is: No.
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  2. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Dancing at the Edge of the

    There is no more subversive act than the act of writing from a woman's experience of life using a woman's judgment."Prospects for Women in Writing" 1986
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  3. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Dancing at the Edge of the

    Boris Pasternak said that poetry makes itself from the relationship between the sounds and the meanings of words.
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  4. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Dancing at the Edge of the

    An artist makes the world her world. An artist makes her world the world. For a little while. For as long as it takes to look at or listen or to watch or read the work of art. Like a crystal, the work of art seems to contain the whole, and to imply eternity.
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  5. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Dancing at the Edge of the

    The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper. In other words, that she's free. Not wholly free. Never wholly free. Maybe very partially. Maybe only in this one act, this sitting for a snatched moment being a woman writing, fishing the mind's lake. But in this, responsible; in this autonomous; in this free.{- from The Fisherwoman's Daughter}
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  6. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Dancing at the Edge of the

    The body is an arrangement in spacetime, a patterning, a process; the mind is a process of the body, an organ, doing what organs do: organize. Order, pattern, connect. . . . an immensely flexible technology, or life strategy, which if used with skill and resourcefulness presents each of us with that most fascinating of all serials, The Story of My Life.
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  7. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Dancing at the Edge of the

    The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us.
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  8. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Dancing at the Edge of the

    If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.
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  9. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Dancing at the Edge of the

    If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it's useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or leaf, or a net woven of your own hair, or what have you, and then take it home with you, home being another, larger kind of pouch or bag, a container for people, and then later on you take it out and eat it or share it or store it up for winter in a solider container or put it in the medicine bundle or the shrine or the museum, the holy place, the area that contains what is sacred, and then the next day you probably do much the same again-if to do that is human, if that's what it takes, then I am a human being after all. Fully, freely, gladly, for the first time....{T}he proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us."-"The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
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  10. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Dancing at the Edge of the

    The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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