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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to 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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Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.
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She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed.
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