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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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Feminist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Berkeley
California
Ursula Kroeber
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
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Frenchmen
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Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.
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There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.
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The same old hypocrisy. Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up the hate with pretty words!
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.
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Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?
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One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.
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You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.
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We read books to find out who we are.
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I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went looking for it. My impulse is less questing and more playful. I like trying on ideas and ways of life and religious approaches. I'm just not a good candidate for conversion.
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Where there's property, there's theft.
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Success is somebody else's failure.
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From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.
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Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.
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Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
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The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
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