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It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you...just let me love you now.
Joan D. Vinge
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Joan D. Vinge
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: April 2
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I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.
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Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.
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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.
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Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.
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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.
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Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
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What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time and we want it to be quality time.
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