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Joan D. Vinge

"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 their loved ones?"

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"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."

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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

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Akiroq Brost

"You can only be twice someone's age once."

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"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."

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Akiroq Brost

"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"

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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

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"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."

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"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."

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Joan D. Vinge
"The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time."

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

Time

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Joan D. Vinge
"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 their loved ones?"

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Joan D. Vinge
"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 bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction."

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Joan D. Vinge
"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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Joan D. Vinge
"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 well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control."

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Joan D. Vinge
"Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future."

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Joan D. Vinge
"Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle."

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Joan D. Vinge
"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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Joan D. Vinge
"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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