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The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.
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
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Writer
Berkeley
California
Ursula Kroeber
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
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This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons there was one of them just now that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.
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Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.
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Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?
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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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True understanding is the spur of genius
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.
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In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.
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I know that nobody who hasn't been in battle or under attack can know what war is. But even in terms of being safe at home, it's also true that many Americans who think they know what being at war is, don't. Including, of course, George W. Bush and his people. They don't have a clue.
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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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The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.
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Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.
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A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.
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At the pit's bottom is no anger.
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Progress means nothing to presence.
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She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed.
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Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.
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If they come prying they can leave curious.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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