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It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Berkeley
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Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.
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I do not care what comes after I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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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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Honestly, orthodoxy concerns me about as much as it concerns your average jackrabbit. I only follow rules that take me where I want to go. If there aren't any rules, I make up my own and follow them strictly.
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Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?
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