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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. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.
— Ursula K. Le Guin The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
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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.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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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.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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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.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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