Ursula K. Le Guin on Humor
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Ursula K. Le Guin, catalogued under humor, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Ursula K. Le Guin, entry #143709: "So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve."
Attributed to Ursula K. Le Guin, entry #22003: "“What harm have the trees done them?” he said. “Must they punish the grass for their own faults? Men are savages, who would set a land afire because they have a quarrel with other…"
6 Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin on Humor
"So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve."
"“What harm have the trees done them?” he said. “Must they punish the grass for their own faults? Men are savages, who would set a land afire because they have a quarrel with other men."
"Obsessed with tricking the girl, he had fallen into the trap he laid for her. Bitterly he recognised that he was always believing his own lies, caught in nets he had elaborately woven."
"A man, he walked with men across a barren plain blue with flowers in brief April; they shared with him their anger, their barren helpless obduracy and the brief blue fire of their anger."
"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."
"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."