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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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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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Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.
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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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What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
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