Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.
Joan D. Vinge
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Joan D. Vinge
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: April 2
Author
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Civilization
Land
Belief
Stoned
Death
Eyed
Men
Blindness
Perception
Blind
Sight
More quotes by Joan D. Vinge
All [people] are intolerant.... Only they're intolerant of different things.
Joan D. Vinge
Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.
Joan D. Vinge
The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.
Joan D. Vinge
Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.
Joan D. Vinge
Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
Joan D. Vinge
For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
Joan D. Vinge
A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.
Joan D. Vinge
Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.
Joan D. Vinge
There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares...heroes in the gutters and in the mirror saints in the frozen wasteland fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.
Joan D. Vinge
Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.
Joan D. Vinge
Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.
Joan D. Vinge
The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.
Joan D. Vinge
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.
Joan D. Vinge
It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you...just let me love you now.
Joan D. Vinge
Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.
Joan D. Vinge
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.
Joan D. Vinge
We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
Joan D. Vinge
To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.
Joan D. Vinge
But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.
Joan D. Vinge
Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?
Joan D. Vinge
