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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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A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.
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The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.
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Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.
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There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.
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Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.
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So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.
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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.
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Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.
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Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
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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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Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.
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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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There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
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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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Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.
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It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.
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Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
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