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There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.

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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When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.
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And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.
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Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
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But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord. It might to keep it open.
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Not even need and love can defeat fate.
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Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.
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Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
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I think what's happening is, it's all - fantasy, science fiction, ghosts, trolls, whatever - finally being called, being admitted to be literature. The way it used to be, before the Realists and the bloody Modernists took over.
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When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.
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One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.
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