No Time To Spare Quotes

“Art isn’t explanation. Art is what an artist does, not what an artist explains.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

“This principle, getting it out of place, off-limits, the basic principle of swearing, I understand and approve.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

“There were people who swore as an art form—performing a dazzling juncture of the inordinate and the unexpected.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

“I guess what’s happened is that what used to be a shockword has become a noise that’s supposed to intensify the emotion in what you’re saying.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

“He is pretty, but his only unusual beauty is his eyes, and you have to look closely to realize it. Right around the large dark pupil they are green, and around that reddish yellow. I had seen that magical change in a semiprecious stone: he has eyes of chrysoberyl. Wikipedia tells us that chrysoberyl or alexandrite is a trichroic gem. It shows emerald green, red, or orange-yellow depending on the angle of the light.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

“The lynx lives at the High Desert Museum. Briefly, when he was a kitten somebody pulled out his claws (“declawing” a cat is the same as pulling out a human being’s fingernails and toenails or cutting off the last joint of each toe and finger). Then they pulled out his four great cat fangs. Then they pretended he was their itty-bitty kitty. Then they got tired of him, or got scared of him, and dumped him. He was found starving.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

“(some Frenchman said that the cat is the soul of the house, and we agree).”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

“The Trojan war is not and you cannot make it be the War of Good vs. Evil. It’s just a war, a wasteful, useless, needless, stupid, protracted, cruel mess full of individual acts of courage, cowardice, nobility, betrayal, limb-hacking-off, and disembowelment.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

“And hearing it that way as a kid, I thought, Hunh? but didn’t say anything, because there is no way, no possible way, a kid can ask about everything grownups say that the kid thinks Hunh? about.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

“spare time is the time not spent at your job or at otherwise keeping yourself”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters