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Even a poet cannot get everything right.
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
Translator
Writer
Berkeley
California
Ursula Kroeber
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
Even
Poet
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Everything
Right
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You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.
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The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.
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Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the craft can. But a workshop where the trade is the principal focus of interest is not a writing workshop. It is a business class.
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Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison.
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What good is power when you're too wise to use it?
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Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.
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There's no way to use power for good.
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We read books to find out who we are.
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But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
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And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life
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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
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Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.
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Hope is a slow business.
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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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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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there are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal.
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Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.
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