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Ursula K. Le Guin (42)

Birth:	21st October, 1929
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays.

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• The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

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  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Philosophy

• I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

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  Topics in Art

  Tags in Writing

• Truth is a matter of the imagination.

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  Topics in Truth

• 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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• The artist deals in 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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  Tags in Words, Artist, Writing

• 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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• To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

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  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Fantasy, Shadow

• We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

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  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Women

• I certainly wasn’t happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can’t earn, and can’t keep, and often don’t even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

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  Tags in Happiness, Reason

• The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Revolution

• As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Scientists

• The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

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  Topics in Power

• I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

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  Topics in God

• In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

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• Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain’t no free rides, baby.

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  Tags in Teachers, Artists

• I don’t write tracts, I write novels. I’m not a preacher, I’m a fiction writer.

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  Tags in Novels

• I do try to separate my personal activism – showing up at a demonstration or something – from what I write.

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• I don’t teach writing classes anymore, and I’m really glad I don’t, because I would feel very strange about telling people, ‘Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.’

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• I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they’re not blueprints for action, ever.

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• What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

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