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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1929
Born: October 21
Died: 2018
Died: January 22
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Berkeley
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You know, I don't think a lot about why one book connects with its readers and another doesn't. Probably because I don't want to start thinking, Am I popular? I spent way too much time thinking about that in high school.
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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.
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Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.
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Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.
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She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed.
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
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Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust.
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Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.
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