If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. -Ursula K. LeGuin

 

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.


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This quote is just one of 12 total Ursula K. LeGuin quotes in our collection. Ursula K. LeGuin is known for saying 'If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. -Ursula K. LeGuin
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

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Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not. -Ursula K. LeGuin
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

Ursula K. LeGuin
155