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Ursula K. Le Guin [1929-0] American

Rank: 101
Writer, Author of novels

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.

Imagination, Truth, Change, Experience, Good, Happiness, Hope, Morning, Science, Technology, Women

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Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.	Morning	101
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.	Good	102
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.		103
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.		104
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.		105
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.	Change, Experience, Truth, Women	106
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?		107
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.		108
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.		109
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.		110
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.	Truth	111
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.		112
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.	Science, Technology	113
If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.		114
I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.		115
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.	Imagination	116
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.		117
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.	Hope, Imagination	118
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.		119
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.	Imagination	120
Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.		121
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.		122
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.	Imagination	123
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.		124
To oppose something is to maintain it.		125
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.	Happiness	126
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.		201
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.		202
There are no right answers to wrong questions.		203
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.		204
I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.		205
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.		206
He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.		207
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.'		208
There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.		209

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