Joan D. Vinge Quotes

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• In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

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  Men, Land, Civilization

  Joan D. Vinge (2002). “Catspaw”, p.82, Macmillan

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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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  Love, Break Up, Hate

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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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  Sea, Age, Culture

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• Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

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  Naked, Body, Tradition

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• We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

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  Change, Unique, Personality

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• The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

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  Behavior, Contradiction, Humans

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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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  Views, Study, Kind

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• Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

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  Stories, Myth

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• Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.

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  Perfect, Scar

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• Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

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  Order, Rooms, Born

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• A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.

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  Memories, Results, Clear

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• Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

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  Past, Fiction, Anthropology

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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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  Love You, Forever, Asking

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• 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 our lives.

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  Our Society, Matter, Doe

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• 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 the universe at large.

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  Queens, Snow, World

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• But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power.

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  Hate, Giving, Stronger

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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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  Thinking, Facts, Earth

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• I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.

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  Strong, Writing, Character

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• Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.

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  Girl, Moon, Naive

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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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  Taken, Unique, Earth

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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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  Real, Knowing, Can Do

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• What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.

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  Mean, Quality, Want

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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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  Running, Ecosystems, Our World

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• The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.

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  Order, Long, Balance

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• What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

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  Writing, Political, Want

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