“No, I don’t understand him, but he is worth listening to.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 3, "Hort Town"
“Not everyone is worth listening to.”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 33.
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