"Life scars us with its random motion, he……" — Joan D. Vinge
"Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect."
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39 Quotes by Joan D. Vinge
Joan D. Vinge has 39 quotes on this site.
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For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
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Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.
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These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most…
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And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with…
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Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.
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The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their…
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Theres no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.
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Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
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As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more…
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Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
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Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre…
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Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the…
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More Death Quotes
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
— Hannah Arendt
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating…
— Giorgio Armani
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every…
— J. J. Abrams
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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