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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of 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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Berkeley
California
Ursula Kroeber
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
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Paradise is for those who make paradise.
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By and large books are mankind's best invention.
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It is good to have an end to journey towards but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
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We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?
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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men's eyes.
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Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
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