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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.

~Ursula K. Le Guin

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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 write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

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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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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 21st, 1929

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