Joan D. Vinge Quotes

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• For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
• Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.
• 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…
• And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within…
• Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.
• Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.
• 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…
• Theres no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.
• Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
• As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently…
• Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.
• 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…
• Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
• 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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