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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
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Ursula Kroeber
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
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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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Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.
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To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.
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Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.
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A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.
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Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter the hand that bears it is heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed.
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Not even need and love can defeat fate.
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Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.
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Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids.
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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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I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?
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That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.
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A man who saw a miracle would reject his eyes' witness, if those with him saw nothing.
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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
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If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.
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A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.
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What is love of one's country is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing.
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When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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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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I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.
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