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There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories.
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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Berkeley
California
Ursula Kroeber
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
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Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring.
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What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make I can only undo, unmake.
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Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst.
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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
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That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.
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To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.
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The unread story is not a story it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.
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Greed puts out the sun.
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.
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Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story.
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It is useless work that darkens the heart.
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Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.
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Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.
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The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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Paradise is for those who make paradise.
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