“No granite is so hard as hatred and no clay so cold as cruelty.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The Stars Below” p. 204 (originally published in Orbit 14, edited by Damon Knight)
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)

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American writer 1929–2018

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