“He liked the vast openness of sky and prairie, and found loneliness a pleasure with so immense a domain to be alone in.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin , Hainish Cycle

Source: Hainish Cycle, City of Illusions (1967), Chapter 3

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American writer 1929–2018

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