Quotes from The Telling — Ursula K. Le Guin
1929–2018 United States
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One of the historians of Darranda said: To learn a belief without belief is to sing a song without the tune.
The Telling (2000)
It is a position, a posture in the dance.
The Telling (2000)
Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.
The Telling (2000)
Where my guides lead me in kindness
I follow, follow lightly,
and there are no footprints
in the dust behind us.
The Telling (2000)
She was not so naive as to think there was any necessary relation between religion and morality, or that if there was a relation it was likely to be a benevolent one.
The Telling (2000)
"We're not outside the world, yoz. You know? We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see?"
The Telling (2000)
By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the living word into dead law.
The Telling (2000)
She had come to Aka to learn how to sing this world's tune, to dance its dance; and at last, she thought, away from the city's endless noise, she was beginning to hear the music and to learn how to move to it.
The Telling (2000)