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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Funny, Humor, Sleep
The Left Hand of Darkness ch. 3 (1969)

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Life, Depression, Sleep
Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.... Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.... Open your eyes; listen, listen. That is what the novelists say. But they don't tell you what you will see and hear. All they can tell you is what they have seen and heard, in their time in this world, a third of it spent in sleep and dreaming, another third of it spent in telling lies.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Dream, Lying, Sleep
Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.8, Penguin

We sleep researchers like cats, you know; they sleep a lot!

Ursula K. Le Guin
Sleep, Cat, Researchers
Ursula K Le Guin (2014). “The Lathe of Heaven”, p.72, Diversion Books

Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Communication, Sleep, People
Ursula K. Le Guin (1973). “The lathe of heaven”

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