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Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.
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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Berkeley
California
Ursula Kroeber
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
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No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.
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The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us.
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The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.
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Where there's property, there's theft.
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I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.
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