Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison.
Ursula K. Le GuinBut it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open.
Ursula K. Le GuinIf you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself
Ursula K. Le Guin