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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
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Ursula Kroeber
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It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.
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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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Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
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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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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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The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.
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There's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.
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I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.
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In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.
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Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it.
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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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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Do you know how to read? No. It is one of the black arts. He nodded. But a useful one, he said.
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