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If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.
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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Sometimes I not only stand there and take it, I even smile at them and say I'm sorry. When I feel that smile coming onto my face, I wish I could take my face off and stamp on it.
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Infinite are the arguments of mages.
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The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.
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No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.
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Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience
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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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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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Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.
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