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Ursula K. Le Guin — Portrait after a picture by Marian Wood Kolisch, Oregon State University (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons. This drawing is shared under the same licence.

The quotations of

Ursula K. Le Guin

American fantasy and science fiction author

1929–2018

16 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Art and Love.

To refuse death is to refuse life.
The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 8, “The Children of the Open Sea” (Ged)
- Life & Death
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people.
The Operating Instructions in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)
- Education
- Life & Death
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 5 “The Domestication of Hunch” (p. 70)
- Life & Death

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