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29 quotes by Joan D. Vinge

Joan D. Vinge (i/ˈvɪndʒi/; born April 2, 1948 as Joan Carol Dennison) is an American science fiction author. She is known for such works as her Hugo Award-winning novel The Snow Queen and its sequels, her series about the telepath named Cat, and her Heaven's Chronicles books.
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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... →

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

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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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The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.

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Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

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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 attacking them or... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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