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Vote: | He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral. |
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Vote: | I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. |
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Vote: | It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. |
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Vote: | Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | The creative adult is the child who has survived. |
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Vote: | The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself. |
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Vote: | The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | There are no right answers to wrong questions. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | To light a candle is to cast a shadow. |
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Vote: | To me the "female principle" is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws. |
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Vote: | To oppose something is to maintain it. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? |
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Vote: | When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. |
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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929), is an American author. Although she has written novels, poetry, children's books, and essays, she is best known for her science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. Le Guin has lived in Portland, Oregon since 1958. The daughter of the anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber and the writer Theodora Kroeber, she is noted for her exemplary style and for her exploration of Taoist, anarchist, feminist, psychological and sociological themes.
First published in the 1960s, she is now regarded as
one of the best modern science fiction authors. She has received several Hugo and Nebula awards, and was awarded the Gandalf Grand Master award in 1979 and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Award in 2003.
Biography
Le Guin became interested in literature when she was very young. At the age of eleven she submitted her first story to the magazine Astounding Science Fiction (it was rejected). She attended Harvard University's Radcliffe College and Columbia University, graduating with an M.A. She later studied in France, where she met her husband, Charles Le Guin. Her earliest writings (little was published at the time, but some was published in adapted form much later in Orsinian Tales and Malafrena), were non-fantastic stories of imaginary countries. Searching for a publishable way to express her interests, she returned to her early interest in science fiction and began to be published regularly in the early 1960s. She became famous after the publication of her 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness, which won the Hugo and Nebula awards.
Much of Le Guin's science fiction is distinctive in its strong emphasis on the social sciences, including sociology and anthropology. Her writing often makes use of unusual alien cultures to convey a message about our own culture; one example is the exploration of sexual identity through the hermaphroditic race in The Left Hand of Darkness.
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