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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.

Joan D. Vinge

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Joan D. Vinge
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: April 2
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What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
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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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For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
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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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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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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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Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.
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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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All [people] are intolerant.... Only they're intolerant of different things.
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A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.
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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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The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.
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Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.
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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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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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