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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.
Joan D. Vinge
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Joan D. Vinge
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: April 2
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Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation maybe that is what's taken us so far.
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For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
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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.
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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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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?
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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.
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Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
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The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.
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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.
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All [people] are intolerant.... Only they're intolerant of different things.
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Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.
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Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.
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Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.
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Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.
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It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you...just let me love you now.
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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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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.
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