"The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants."

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Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when you're not, what does that mean? Maybe that you're afraid of human contact--of being close to people, of being touched.

— Ursula K. Le Guin