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Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.
Joan D. Vinge
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Joan D. Vinge
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: April 2
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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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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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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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Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
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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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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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All [people] are intolerant.... Only they're intolerant of different things.
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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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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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What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
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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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It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you...just let me love you now.
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Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.
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Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.
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Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
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For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
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A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.
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Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.
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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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