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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
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Berkeley
California
Ursula Kroeber
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
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Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.
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Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that's the real art it makes the work inexhaustible.
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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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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Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
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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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They can send death at once, but life is slower.
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No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see.
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I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went looking for it. My impulse is less questing and more playful. I like trying on ideas and ways of life and religious approaches. I'm just not a good candidate for conversion.
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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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What is love of one's country is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't make a virtue of it, or a profession...Insofar as I love life, I love [my country], but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.
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Greed puts out the sun.
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To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.
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Honestly, orthodoxy concerns me about as much as it concerns your average jackrabbit. I only follow rules that take me where I want to go. If there aren't any rules, I make up my own and follow them strictly.
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Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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