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Joan D. Vinge

"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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"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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"We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast."

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"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."

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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

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"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."

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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

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"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

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"It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is."

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"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

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Joan D. Vinge
"Myth is, after all, the neverending story."

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

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Joan D. Vinge
"Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession."

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Joan D. Vinge
"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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Joan D. Vinge
"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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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
"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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"Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write."

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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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