"Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds."

-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Writing Quotes #Giving Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.”
“Find someone to love . . . and, oh, someone to love you.”

Source : Sacha Guitry (1921). “Deburau, a Comedy”, New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
“I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.”
“All of the Great Teachers throughout the history of our species have merely taught one thing, over & over, in whatever language, at whatever time. All have said, simply: Give up weak attractors for strong attractors.”
“Change itself is changing. The process of evolution itself is evolving. There is a meta-evolution, or a metachange that is taking place. And in that process what you see is actually an increasing contrast between change and the eternal or the unchanging.”

Source : Source: evolutionarymystic.wordpress.com
“I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.”
“There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which is a transcendent and creative power.”
“What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination that looks forward to the making of a future, not backward to the insignia of the past. Their enterprise is underwritten by a Constitution that allows for the widest horizons of sight and the broadest range of expression, supports the liberties of the people as opposed to the ambitions of the state, and stands as premise for a narrative rather than plan for an invasion or a monument. The narrative was always plural; not one story, many stories.”

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