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I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons there was one of them just now that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.
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
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Berkeley
California
Ursula Kroeber
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
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One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.
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Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.
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Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.
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All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
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At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.
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Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.
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There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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To be whole is to be part true voyage is return.
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The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper.
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The king was pregnant.
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It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.
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Where there's property, there's theft.
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It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
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The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us.
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Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.
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A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.
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I don't believe that a writer 'gets' (takes into the head) an 'idea' (some sort of mental object) 'from' somewhere, and then turns it into words, and writes them on paper. At least in my experience, it doesn't work that way. The stuff has to be transformed into oneself, it has to be composted, before it can grow into a story.
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