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Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison.
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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Berkeley
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A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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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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To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.
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In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting.
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Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust.
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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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To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
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There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.
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The more defensive a society, the more conformist.
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.
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I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons there was one of them just now that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.
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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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Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
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The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper.
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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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A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
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The backside of heroism is often rather sad women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.
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there are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal.
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