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I thought the same thing, exactly. We always say that. you said it--you should have refused to go to Rolny. I said it as soon as I got to Elbow; I'm a...more

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One of the rocks in my soulbag, a little grey rock that I had picked up on a certain day in a certain place in the hills above the river in the Silver...more

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

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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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I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining of two people. What is one man's and one woman's...more

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... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.

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Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, a...more

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A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is taken, if one goes nowhere, no change will occur. ...more

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You are rich. You own. We are poor. We lack. You have. We do not have. Everything is beautiful here, only not the faces. On Anarres nothing is beautif...more

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There is nothing you can do that profit does not enter into, and fear of loss, and wish for power. You cannot say good morning without knowing which o...more

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There was something lacking – in him, he thought, not in the place. He was not up to it. He was not strong enough to take what was so generously offer...more

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A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart. But she did not feel joy, as she had in the mountains. She put her head down in her arms and ...more

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One of the rocks in my soulbag, a little grey rock that I had picked up on a certain day in a certain place in the hills above the river in the Silver...more