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Joan D. Vinge

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    A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.

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    Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

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    As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.

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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 their loved ones?

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

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

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    Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

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    For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

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

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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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    Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.

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    In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

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    It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you...just let me love you now.

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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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    Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.

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

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    Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

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

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    Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

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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 aspects of life.

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

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

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

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    What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

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    A szépsége még mindig ugyanúgy lenyűgözte Kait, mint fiúkorában, bár nem a ruhái élénk színe, és ne is gyönyörű finoman metszett arca ejtette rabul a szívét, olyan szerelmet ébresztve benne, amely aztán évekig életben tartotta őt - hanem az, amit azonnal meglátott a szemében, amikor először találkozott a tekintetük: hogy egy öreg lélek felismer egy másikat.

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    Aztán valahol a végtele kékségben két lélek útjai keresztezik egymást... ő pedig úgy veszi majd észre egy idegen szemében a saját szíve tükörképét, mint búvár a tenger árnyai közt a gyöngyöt... és akkor tudni fogja, hogy végre az ő lelke is hazatalált.

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    - Ezer világon és tízezer életen át is kereslek majd, amíg meg nem talállak. - Én pedig várok majd rá, minden világban és minden életben...

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    I stood where they'd left me. I watched them get smaller and smaller as they went down the hallway, leaving me there without a word, not even looking back. Only I was getting smaller and smaller, being swallowed up in the suffocating emptiness of the silent house; so that by the time they came back again, I would have disappeared.

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    Most people simply aren’t unhappy enough with the known to trade it for the unknown

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    [S]omehow, without his being aware of it, time had coated his awe with a rind of disillusionment, and the wine of wonder had turned to vinegar.

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    Van egy hely túl életen és halálon, Ahol az égen nincs felhő, és a folyók vize tiszta. Emlékezz rám, és ott rád találok.