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By and large books are mankind's best invention.
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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Berkeley
California
Ursula Kroeber
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
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I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.
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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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No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.
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We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
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The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.
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Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
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Those who dislike fantasy are very often equally bored or repelled by science. They don't like either hobbits, or quasars they don't feel at home with them they don't want complexities, remoteness. If there is any such connection, I'll bet that it is basically an aesthetic one
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You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.
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In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.
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