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Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.
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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We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.
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Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when you're not, what does that mean? Maybe that you're afraid of human contact--of being close to people, of being touched.
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I have become very critical of the whole book award system and could preach on that subject for quite a while, but I do know what an award can mean to a writer early in her career. It can give an essential validation.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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Alone, no one wins freedom.
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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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Infinite are the arguments of mages.
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From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.
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No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.
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Truth is a matter of the imagination.
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Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
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A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.
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This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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As a writer, you are free.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.
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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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When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
To be whole is to be part true voyage is return.
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