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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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Feminist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Berkeley
California
Ursula Kroeber
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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.
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Not even need and love can defeat fate.
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A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.
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Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
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It is useless work that darkens the heart.
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
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Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.
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There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.
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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
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Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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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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Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.
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Age and illness made one a dualist
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There's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.
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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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