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Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
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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That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.
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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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