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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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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We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.
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Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.
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The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
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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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It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.
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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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To make a thief, make an owner to create crime, create laws.
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I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.
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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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In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.
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The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.
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The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly. It is full of barbed wire and the stumps of dead opinions.
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