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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.
Joan D. Vinge
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Joan D. Vinge
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: April 2
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A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.
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Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.
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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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