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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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It is good to have an end to journey towards but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
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In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.
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The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.
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Even a poet cannot get everything right.
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Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.
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Age and illness made one a dualist
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Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it.
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Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.
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Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison.
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This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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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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Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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Paradise is for those who make paradise.
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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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When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.
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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.
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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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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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