There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.


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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what come...
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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is...
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If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words eve...
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If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their ...
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They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go t...
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Ai taught me a Terran game played on squares with little stones, called go, an excellent difficult g...
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The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Se...
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Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they g...
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My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and go...
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The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only...
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There are talking dogs all over the place, unbelievably boring they are, on and on and on about sex ...
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Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry."

"Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "the...
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Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful functio...
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They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the
darkness, and they do not come back. The place they...
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Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that w...
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A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean w...
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This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
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Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your min...
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The little Otak was hiding in the rafters of the house, as it did when strangers entered. There it s...
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I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what al...
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When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at th...
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I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what al...
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Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgot...
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We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we...
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To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful...
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In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helpl...
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Which is better off, a lizard basking in the sun or a philosopher?
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My dogs have barked at a beggar tonight and he proves a prince of starlight.
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... “Dangerous!” Vea laughed radiantly. “What an utterly marvellous compliment! Why am I dange...
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Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Eith...
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We have nothing but our freedom. We have nothing to give you but your own freedom. We have no law bu...
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns ...
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Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, ...
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While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't the...
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An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet ...
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I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
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The prisoner is the jailer's jailer.
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There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else...
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What good is power when you're too wise to use it?
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Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?
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But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
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Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
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A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is ...
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To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game...speak the truth and hear the truth.
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Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life...
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We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the fore...
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In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge ...
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To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; the...
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In feudal times the aristocracy had sent their sons to university, conferring superiority on the ins...
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Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicor...
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Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It ...
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His words cost him so much, she thought, not like hers that just came dancing out of the air and wen...
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On the blank leaf glued to the inner back cover I drew the double curve within the circle, and black...
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Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still th...
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There must be darkness to see the stars.
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The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying.
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The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, ...
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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel......
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A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice
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