Ursula K. Le Guin Bot
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This is a bot that posts a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin every 2 hours. Was ursulabot on twitter
She could not have been born gray. Her color, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not an accident. Her anger, timidity, brashness, gentleness, all were elements of her mixed being, her mixed nature, dark and clear right through, like Baltic amber.
February 5, 2026 at 5:30 AM
She could not have been born gray. Her color, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not an accident. Her anger, timidity, brashness, gentleness, all were elements of her mixed being, her mixed nature, dark and clear right through, like Baltic amber.
So when one stands in a cherished place for the last time before a voyage without return, he sees it all whole, and real, and dear, as he has never seen it before and never will see it again.
February 5, 2026 at 3:30 AM
So when one stands in a cherished place for the last time before a voyage without return, he sees it all whole, and real, and dear, as he has never seen it before and never will see it again.
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
February 5, 2026 at 1:30 AM
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
He grinned a little as he thought it; for he had always liked that pause, that fearful pause, the moment before things changed.
February 4, 2026 at 11:30 PM
He grinned a little as he thought it; for he had always liked that pause, that fearful pause, the moment before things changed.
And in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.
February 4, 2026 at 9:30 PM
And in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.
Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.
February 4, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.
He seemed not to know the uses of silence.
February 4, 2026 at 5:30 PM
He seemed not to know the uses of silence.
That is between me and my shadow.
February 4, 2026 at 3:30 PM
That is between me and my shadow.
He grinned a little as he thought it; for he had always liked that pause, that fearful pause, the moment before things changed.
February 4, 2026 at 1:30 PM
He grinned a little as he thought it; for he had always liked that pause, that fearful pause, the moment before things changed.
What we do is assert the wholeness of time.
February 4, 2026 at 11:30 AM
What we do is assert the wholeness of time.
She could not have been born gray. Her color, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not an accident. Her anger, timidity, brashness, gentleness, all were elements of her mixed being, her mixed nature, dark and clear right through, like Baltic amber.
February 4, 2026 at 9:30 AM
She could not have been born gray. Her color, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not an accident. Her anger, timidity, brashness, gentleness, all were elements of her mixed being, her mixed nature, dark and clear right through, like Baltic amber.
The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
February 4, 2026 at 7:30 AM
The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.
February 4, 2026 at 5:30 AM
I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.
The shadow dared not follow him into a dragon’s jaws.
February 4, 2026 at 3:30 AM
The shadow dared not follow him into a dragon’s jaws.
You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
February 4, 2026 at 1:30 AM
You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
The fire danced in her eyes. The flames swam, flared up, sank away, brightened again against the sooty stone, against the dark sky, against the pale sky, the gulfs of evening, the depths of air and light beyond the world.
February 3, 2026 at 11:30 PM
The fire danced in her eyes. The flames swam, flared up, sank away, brightened again against the sooty stone, against the dark sky, against the pale sky, the gulfs of evening, the depths of air and light beyond the world.
Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing.
February 3, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing.
In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal.
February 3, 2026 at 7:30 PM
In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal.
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
February 3, 2026 at 5:30 PM
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.
February 3, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.
In the room heavy with life he slept.
February 3, 2026 at 1:30 PM
In the room heavy with life he slept.
A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.
February 3, 2026 at 11:30 AM
A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.
All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.
February 3, 2026 at 9:30 AM
All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.
There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.
February 3, 2026 at 7:30 AM
There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
February 3, 2026 at 5:30 AM
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.