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Quotes from The Wind’s Twelve Quarters — Ursula K. Le Guin

1929–2018 United States

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11 quotes

After a lifetime of living on hope because there is nothing but hope, one loses the taste for victory.

The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)

Mede spoke with amused tolerance, as physicists generally speak of biologists.

The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)

No granite is so hard as hatred and no clay so cold as cruelty.

The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)

Favoritism, elitism, leader-worship, they crept back and cropped out everywhere. But she had never hoped to see them eradicated in her lifetime, in one generation; only Time works the great changes.

The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)

What was the good working for freedom all your life and ending up without any freedom at all?

The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)

There is not much good spending twelve hours a day in a black hole in the ground all your life long if there’s nothing there, no secret, no treasure, nothing hidden.

The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)

Unless physical action reflects psychic action, unless the deeds express the person, I get very bored with adventure stories; often it seems that the more action there is, the less happens.

The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)

They can keep their God, they can keep their Light. I want the world back. I want questions, not the answer. I want my own life back, and my own death!

The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)

Hughes, who had entered the space program from astrophysics, came with a very good record, in fact a brilliant one. This troubled many of his military superiors, to whom high intelligence was a code word for instability and insubordination.

The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)

Shelley was kicked out of Oxford—I think the story is unauthenticated, but who cares—because he painted a sign on the end wall of a dead-end alley: THIS WAY TO HEAVEN. I feel that every now and then his sign needs repainting.

The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ursula K. Le Guin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.