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Yes, she made me love her. But she didn't mean to. She took by giving ... and that makes all the difference. — Joan D. Vinge

Jule was a poet - poetry was like psi, she said, like thought, a thing that compressed images to essence. — Joan D. Vinge

Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle. — Joan D. Vinge

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts. — Joan D. Vinge

Maybe everything we do is meaningless. But we have to try, don't we? We have to go on looking for justice ... and settling for revenge. — Joan D. Vinge

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

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

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. — Joan D. Vinge

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

He is afraid, as suddenly he knows that he was afraid all along, that if he felt her body so close to him he would never let her go. — Joan D. Vinge

All [people] are intolerant ... Only they're intolerant of different things. — Joan D. Vinge

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear. — Joan D. Vinge

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. — 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. — Joan D. Vinge

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

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end. — Joan D. Vinge

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

Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect. — Joan D. Vinge

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

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

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time. — Joan D. Vinge

There's no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level. — Joan D. Vinge

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

Sometimes she talked like a poet; she made a little joke of it, so that you wouldn't mind. — Joan D. Vinge

Everything changes, today's tears are tomorrow's absurdities, after all. — Joan D. Vinge

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established. — Joan D. Vinge

You've made her so beautiful; when she's come to take your life away. — Joan D. Vinge

A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life. — Joan D. Vinge

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future. — Joan D. Vinge

Learn to be - gentle with them. Learn that ... that gentleness isn't ... weakness. — Joan D. Vinge