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Wild Girls (PM's Outspoken Authors, #6) Wild Girls by Ursula K. Le Guin
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“...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn't SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my arguments by writing well.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, Wild Girls
“But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a realistic assessment of the job to be done and one's ability to do it, then you might say the chief virtue of excellent artists is their modesty...But knowing your limits and going to them isn't arrogance. It's greatness of spirit.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, Wild Girls
“Self-satisfaction with the inability to remain conscious when faced with printed matter seems misplaced.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, Wild Girls
“A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in it. It won't do the work for you. To read a good novel well is to follow it, to act it, to feel it, to become it—everything short of writing it, in fact. Reading is a collaboration, an act of participation. No wonder not everybody is up to it.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, Wild Girls
“Bence bugün çoğu insan, dile getirmeseler bile, tevazuu bir erdem olarak görüyor ve hayatında tevazua yer veriyor. Günlük sohbetleri, marangozların birlikte çalışırken, sekreterlerin molalarda konuşurken, birlikte içen veya yemek yiyen insanların ilgi konuları ve bildikleri üzerine gündelik konuşmalarını düşünüyorum ve bu tür durumlarda tevazuun ölçüt sayıldığı fikrindeyim. Arabamı nasıl ucuza kapattım, şuraya ne seyahat yaptım, müthiş seks hayatım, Isa'yla özel ilişkim, vesaire yollu gevezelikler, hoş veya nahoş biçimleriyle özellikle erkekleri dinleyen kadınlardan çıkar ve yayılır. Ama geniş kapsamda mütevazı sohbet toparlanır, bir kayanın etrafından akan sular misali tekrar bir araya gelir ve kesintisiz akar. Sıradan insanları bir arada tutan şeydir mütevazı sohbet. Reklamın zıddıdır. Birliktir. Paylaşımdır. Duygu ortaklığııdır.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, Wild Girls
“I share your modest enthusiasm for Austen’s Mansfield Park. I didn’t like the movie, though. Do you like any of the recent Jane movies? Oh, as movies, sure. Not as Austen. There is no way I can dislike Alan whatshisname with the voice like a cello.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wild Girls