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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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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