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Famous Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
“Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?”
“What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up”
“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.”
“Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.”
“It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.”
“The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.”
“Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?”
“If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.”
“We read books to find out who we are.”
“To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.”
“George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.”
“In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood.”
“Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.”
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”
“When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.”