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He knew that he was very near achieving the General Temporal Theory that the Ioti wanted so badly for their spaceflight and their prestige. He knew al...more

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I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themsel...more

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Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

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You go to the Place of the Lie to find out the truth?

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Books, you know, they’re not just commodities. The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems ine...more

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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Res...more

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Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.

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[T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.

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Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to...more

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And I see a lot of us, the producers, who write the books and make the books, accepting this--letting commodity profiteers sell us like deodorant, and...more

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Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.

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If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted...more

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They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not que...more

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I never thought before,” said Tirin unruffled, “of the fact that there are people sitting on a hill, up there, on Urras, looking at Anarres, at us, an...more