Showing posts with label Ursula K. Le Guin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ursula K. Le Guin. Show all posts

Apr 12, 2014

The banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. 
Only pain is intelectual, only evil interesting.
This is the treason of the artist: the refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain…”

- Ursula K. Le Guin