# Quote — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters

> There is not much good spending twelve hours a day in a black hole in the ground all your life long if there’s nothing there, no secret, no treasure, nothing hidden.

- Author: [Ursula K. Le Guin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin.md)
- Book: [The Wind’s Twelve Quarters](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-winds-twelve-quarters.md)
- Page: 212
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#The_Wind%E2%80%99s_Twelve_Quarters_(1975)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-winds-twelve-quarters/there-is-not

## More from this book

> The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else.

p. 254 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-winds-twelve-quarters/the-trouble-is-that.md)

> No granite is so hard as hatred and no clay so cold as cruelty.

p. 204 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-winds-twelve-quarters/no-granite-is-so-hard.md)

> Hughes, who had entered the space program from astrophysics, came with a very good record, in fact a brilliant one. This troubled many of his military superiors, to whom high intelligence was a code word for instability and insubordination.

p. 228 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-winds-twelve-quarters/hughes-who-had.md)