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Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

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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