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
Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.
February 8, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.
And no one knows how many of the dolphins that leap in the waters of the Inmost Sea were men once, wise men, who forgot their wisdom and their name in the joy of the restless sea.
February 7, 2026 at 11:30 PM
And no one knows how many of the dolphins that leap in the waters of the Inmost Sea were men once, wise men, who forgot their wisdom and their name in the joy of the restless sea.
To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.
February 7, 2026 at 9:30 PM
To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.
In this effort to attain security, independence and privacy of course were suspect...
February 7, 2026 at 7:30 PM
In this effort to attain security, independence and privacy of course were suspect...
Clouds in the west laid great shivering mirages on the plain, the shadows of dreams of lakes gone dry ten million years ago.
February 7, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Clouds in the west laid great shivering mirages on the plain, the shadows of dreams of lakes gone dry ten million years ago.
He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary.
February 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM
He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary.
But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.
February 7, 2026 at 1:30 PM
But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.
Injustice makes the rules and courage breaks them.
February 7, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Injustice makes the rules and courage breaks them.
Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.
February 7, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.
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 7, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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.
He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
February 7, 2026 at 5:30 AM
He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn.
February 7, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn.
It was a cold that got into the bone, into the marrow, and would not be dislodged.
February 7, 2026 at 1:30 AM
It was a cold that got into the bone, into the marrow, and would not be dislodged.
Dragons think we are amusing. But they remember Erreth-Akbe. They speak of him as if he were a dragon, not a man.
February 6, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Dragons think we are amusing. But they remember Erreth-Akbe. They speak of him as if he were a dragon, not a man.
Down the orchard aisles, in the thick, new, wet grass, the little girl ran for the joy of running.
February 6, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Down the orchard aisles, in the thick, new, wet grass, the little girl ran for the joy of running.
“She'll die.”
“Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.”
“Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.”
February 6, 2026 at 7:30 PM
“She'll die.”
“Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.”
“Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.”
No one, no matter how strong or wise or great, can rightly own and use another.
February 6, 2026 at 5:30 PM
No one, no matter how strong or wise or great, can rightly own and use another.
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 6, 2026 at 3:30 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.
Injustice makes the rules and courage breaks them.
February 6, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Injustice makes the rules and courage breaks them.
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
February 6, 2026 at 11:30 AM
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
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 6, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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.
“I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.”
February 6, 2026 at 7:30 AM
“I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.”
Ged stood still a while, like one who has received great news, and must enlarge his spirit to receive it.
February 6, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Ged stood still a while, like one who has received great news, and must enlarge his spirit to receive it.
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 6, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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.
The Old Powers of earth are not for men to use. They were never given into our hands, and in our hands they work only ruin. Ill means, ill end. I was not drawn here, but driven here, and the force that drove me works to my undoing.
February 6, 2026 at 1:30 AM
The Old Powers of earth are not for men to use. They were never given into our hands, and in our hands they work only ruin. Ill means, ill end. I was not drawn here, but driven here, and the force that drove me works to my undoing.