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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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"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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"The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level."

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"The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze."

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"Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion."

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"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes."

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"In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew."

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"A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter."

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"I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more."

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"I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks."

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"I want to go to sea."

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"He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea."

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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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"I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant."
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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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"What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts."
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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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"These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual."
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"Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future."
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"Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle."
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"Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established."
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"Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession."
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