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Iain M. Banks
“The only sin is selfishness.”
Iain M. Banks, Inversions

Joanna Russ
“I think from now on, I will not trust anyone who isn't angry.”
Joanna Russ, How to Suppress Women's Writing

Ursula K. Le Guin
“He was aware that in thus relegating to irrelity a major portion of the only reality, the only existence, that he in fact did have, he was running exactly the same risk the insane mind runs: the lossof the sense of free will. He knew that in so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. But the void was there. This life lacked realness; it was hollow; the dream, creating where there was no necessity to create, had worn thin and sleazy. If this was being, perhaps the void was better. He would accept the monsters and the necessities beyond reason. He wouldgo home, and take no drugs, but sleep, and dream what dreams might come.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“When you meet a master swordsman, show him your sword. When you meet a man who is not a poet, do not show him your poem.

Robert Greene rephrase:
When you meet a swordsman, draw your sword. Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet.”
Lin-Chi

Ursula K. Le Guin
“For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

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