Joan D. Vinge Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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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• Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.

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  Worry, Safe, Stealing

  Joan D. Vinge (2002). “Catspaw”, p.337, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• 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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  Eye, Age, Comfort

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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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  Writing, Perfect, Goddess

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• To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.

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  Knowing, Trying, Needs

  Joan D. Vinge (2007). “Psion”, p.302, Macmillan

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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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• Theres no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.

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  Lunch, Levels, Free Lunch

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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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• 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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• There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares...heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.

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  Dream, Liars, Hero

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

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  Upset, Balance, Ancestor

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• Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

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  Obsession, Immortality, Humans

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