"To be alive was to be disappointed. You……" — Joan D. Vinge
"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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39 Quotes by Joan D. Vinge
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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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Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.
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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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