Joan D. Vinge Quotes

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

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

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

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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.

Joan D. Vinge

Everything changes, today's tears are tomorrow's absurdities, after all.

Joan D. Vinge

I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the wisdom of those who drink of me that me wise makes. Fools make a sibyl foolish, wherever she is.

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

Joan D. Vinge

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

Joan D. Vinge

All medical men are voyeurs. Why else would they become doctors? Except for the sadists, of course, who simply enjoy the blood and the pain.

Joan D. Vinge

Joan D. Vinge

Joan D. Vinge

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Born: April 2, 1948 (age 77)

Bio: Joan D. Vinge is an American science fiction author. She is known for such works as her Hugo Award-winning novel The Snow Queen and its sequels, her series about the telepath named Cat, and her Heaven's Chronicles books.

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