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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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To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.
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Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so do nothing because it seems good to do so do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.
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Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.
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If they come prying they can leave curious.
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The word must be heard in silence there must be darkness to see the stars.
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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
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All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it's life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond?
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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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To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
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After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.
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Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.
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To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.
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George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
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