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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2005-09-25

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-08-06:

"You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at least he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he *must do*. . . ." -- Ursula Le Guin, from A Wizard of Earthsea.
(submitted to the mailing list by Jeannette Cezanne)

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posted by [identity profile] redaxe.livejournal.com at 09:32am on 2005-09-25
Wow. It's been a VERY long time (double-digit years, at least) since I read the original Earthsea trilogy -- and yet, by the end of the first sentence, I knew exactly where this came from.

Says something about something, though I don't know whether the latter something is what we read when young, or just excellent writing in general :-)
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