When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.

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In later years Le Guin worked in film and audio.

R. She has won the Hugo Award Nebula Award Locus Award and World Fantasy Award each more than once. Dick by central figures of Western literature like Leo Tolstoy Virgil and the Brontë sisters and including feminist writers like Virginia Woolf by children's literature like Alice in Wonderland The Wind in the Willows The Jungle Book by Norse mythology and by books from the Eastern tradition such as the Tao Te Ching.