“How could anybody think this man was sick? All right, so he had funny dreams. That was better than being plain mean and hateful, like about one quarter of the people she had ever met.”

—  Ursula K. Le Guin, book The Lathe of Heaven

Source: The Lathe of Heaven (1971), Chapter 10 (Heather)

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