Truth is a matter of the imagination.
("The Left Hand of Darkness")
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Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.
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The light is the left hand of darkness
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But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
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Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.
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