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Ursula K. Le Guin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1929
Born: October 21
Died: 2018
Died: January 22
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Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.
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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.
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What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible rational, coherent world, is nothing less than everything. . . . . All human knowledge is local. Every life, each human life is local, is arbitrary, the infinitesimal momentary glitter of a reflection.
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Owning is owing, having is hoarding.
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Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?
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A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.
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Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.
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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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Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
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Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
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Age and illness made one a dualist
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
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Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.
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Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while. And not every planet can do it it is no common effect, that tangling of the sun's first cool light in the shadow and complexity of innumberable wind-stirred branches.
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But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.
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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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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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