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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

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Until then I had rejected him, refused him his own reality. He had been quite right to say that he, the only person on Gethen who trusted him, was the...more

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Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary no...more

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A lot of people still maintain genre prejudice. I still meet matrons who tell me kindly that their children enjoyed my books but of course they never ...more

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In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was turned against it.

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What is fantasy? On one level, of course, it is a game: a pure pretense with no ulterior motive whatever. It is one child saying to another child, “Le...more

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So rest a while, we can talk in the cool of the evening. Or the cool of the morning. There 's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was." -Haw...more

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Sure, it's simple writing for kids…just as simple as bringing them up.

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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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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

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I know that I am going to meet a personal variation on reality; a partial view of reality. But I know also that by that partiality, that distancing fr...more

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Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game we play for pleasure or for praise. Think of th...more

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Ged saw all these things from outside and apart, alone, and his heart was very heavy in him, though he would not admit to himself that he was sad. As ...more

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The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written (or rewritten for children) in England and northern Europe. The principal characters wer...more

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I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end.