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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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Berkeley
California
Ursula Kroeber
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
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Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.
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The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
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Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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Great artists make the roads good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.
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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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Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.
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It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give.
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To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.
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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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Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.
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I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.
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The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.
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Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.
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What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we call psychosis is sometimes simply realism. But human beings can't live on realism alone.
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There's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.
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