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They can send death at once, but life is slower.
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
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Writer
Berkeley
California
Ursula Kroeber
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
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Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.
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I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible it is without significance. Old age is similarly a waiting room, where you go after life's over and wait for cancer or a stroke. The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness.
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Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.
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Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.
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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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Where there's property, there's theft.
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O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.
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The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.
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The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else.
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I write with all my heart
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One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.
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Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.
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Do you know how to read? No. It is one of the black arts. He nodded. But a useful one, he said.
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Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.
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