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Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew

by Ursula K. Le Guin

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No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters

by Ursula K. Le Guin

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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

by Gabor Maté

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Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

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But it also strikes me that the idea of ‘conservatism’ is in itself false, because nothing can be conserved, as such – time moves in one direction only, I mean.

Conversations with Friends

by Sally Rooney

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Ruby’s Quotes

“To light a candle is to cast a shadow...”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

tags: balance, equilibrium, evil, good, knowledge, taoism

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“There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless. A philosophical doctrine is, at first, a plausible description of the universe; the years go by, and it is a mere chapter -- if not a paragraph or proper noun -- in the history of philosophy.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

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“But as the day passed, his impatience turned from a fear to a kind of glad fierceness. At least he sought this danger of his own will; and the nearer he came to it the more sure he was that, for this time at least, for this hour perhaps before his death, he was free.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

tags: fear, free, freedom, ged, inspirational, will

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“Things take the time they take.
Don't worry.
How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: time

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“So the winter passed, till lambing season was on them, and the work got very heavy for a while as the days lengthened and grew bright. Then the swallows came from the isles under the sun, from the South Reach, where the star Gobardon shines in the constellation of Ending; but all the swallows’ talk with one another was about beginning.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu

tags: beginning

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