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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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Feminist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Berkeley
California
Ursula Kroeber
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
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Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.
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A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.
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Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.
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By and large books are mankind's best invention.
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In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.
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Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.
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Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.
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Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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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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Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the craft and after it, is some essential durable core of being, which is what the craft works on, and shows, and sets free. The statue in the stone. How does the artist find that, see it, before it's visible? That is a real question.
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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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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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The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.
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In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.
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The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.
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For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.
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