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A life in quotes: Ursula K Le Guin
The award-winning fantasy and science fiction author on politics, death, writing and gender
• News report: Ursula K Le Guin dies at 88
Ursula K Le Guin, award-winning fantasy and science fiction author and pioneer of feminist speculative fiction, has died age 88.
Her extensive catalogue of published works includes novels, essays, poetry and children’s books.
Here are some of her most memorable quotes.
On mortality:
”You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have…