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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.
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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He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.
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If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.
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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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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls.
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Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.
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No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.
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To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.
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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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The great authors share their souls with us- literally.
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Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.
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The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.
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Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself
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What is more arrogant than honesty?
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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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