Ursula Kroeber Le Guin é uma escritora norte-americana. Escreveu romances, ensaios, contos, poesia e literatura infantil, destacando-se na Fantasia e na Ficção Científica. Os seus primeiros trabalhos foram publicados em 1960 e, desde aí, as suas obras exploram, nomeadamente, aspectos do taoísmo, anarquismo, etnografia, feminismo, psicologia e sociologia.
Suas obras mais conhecidas são o Ciclo de Terramar, composto por cinco volumes — O Feiticeiro e a Sombra , Os Túmulos de Atuan , A Praia mais Longínqua , Tehanu, o nome da estrela e Num Vento Diferente — e o romance A Mão Esquerda da Escuridão, parte do Ciclo de Hainish, outra de suas séries de alta fantasia.
“É bom ter um objetivo para a jornada á frente, mas, no fim, o que importa é a jornada.”
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
citado em "The farthest shores of Ursula K. Le Guin" - Página 27, George Edgar Slusser - Wildside Press LLC, 1976, ISBN 0893702056, 9780893702052 - 60 páginas
Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.
"Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places" - Página 116, Ursula K. Le Guin - Grove Press, 1997, ISBN 0802135293, 9780802135292 - 320 páginas
Fonte: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 3, "Hort Town" (Ged)
“The Finder” (p. 66)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
Fonte: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 5 “Rejoining” (p. 281)
“In our minds, lad. In our minds. The traitor, the self; the self that cries I want to live; let the world burn so long as I can live! The little traitor soul in us, in the dark, like the worm in the apple.”
Fonte: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Arren and Ged)
“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.”
Fonte: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Arren)
“In the end, the truth usually insists upon serving only the common good,” Keng said.
“In the end, yes, but I am not willing to wait for the end. I have one lifetime, and I will not spend it for greed and profiteering and lies. I will not serve any master.
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 11 (pp. 345-346)
“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.”
“Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical.”
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 7 (p. 220)
Right now, I think we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. The profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable; so did the divine right of kings. … 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. I’ve had a long career and a good one, in good company, and here, at the end of it, I really don’t want to watch American literature get sold down the river. ... The name of our beautiful reward is not profit. Its name is freedom.
National Book Awards, November 2014 https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/national-book-awards-ursula-le-guin
Imaginary Countries (p. 204; first published in The Harvard Advocate (Winter 1973)
Short fiction, Orsinian Tales (1976)
The Lady of Moge (p. 183)
Short fiction, Orsinian Tales (1976)
“I was afraid I’d fail. So I didn’t work.”
Brothers and Sisters (p. 93; first published in The Little Magazine (1976) Vol. 10, Nos. 1 & 2)
Short fiction, Orsinian Tales (1976)
Ile Forest (p. 29)
Short fiction, Orsinian Tales (1976)
The House (p. 176)
Short fiction, Orsinian Tales (1976)
An die Musik (pp. 159-160; first published in The Western Humanities Review (1961) Vol. 15, No. 3)
Short fiction, Orsinian Tales (1976)
“The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.”
Fonte: Hainish Cycle, The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 13
