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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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Berkeley
California
Ursula Kroeber
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To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.
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We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
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You cannot blame everything on the enemy.
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The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
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So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.
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Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.
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Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself. That's when you begin to listen to the voices from the other side, and to ask questions of failure and the dark.
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We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order that the lie of God might be God's truth, the universe at once began to exist.
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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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Not even need and love can defeat fate.
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Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that's the real art it makes the work inexhaustible.
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No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see.
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Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.
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Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been then they stared ahead again. I had thought that only beetles had this delusion of Progress.
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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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Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.
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