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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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Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.
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Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.
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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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Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
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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.
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What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
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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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Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.
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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.
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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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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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A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.
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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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These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.
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All [people] are intolerant.... Only they're intolerant of different things.
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For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
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