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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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Joan D. Vinge
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: April 2
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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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A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.
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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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Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
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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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For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
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What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
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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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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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Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.
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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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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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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.
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Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation maybe that is what's taken us so far.
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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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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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