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Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.
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Fear Of The Unknown
Terrible
Unknown
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Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
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Myth
Stories
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What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
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Didactic
Political
Want
Writing
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.
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Men
Civilization
Land
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Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.
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Safe
Stealing
Worry
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Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.
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Born
Order
Rooms
Die
Room
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Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.
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Girl
Moon
Naive
Native
Sets
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Theres no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.
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Free Lunch
Levels
Lunch
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There's no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.
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Free Lunch
Lunch
Least
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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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It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you...just let me love you now.
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Asking
Forever
Love You
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All [people] are intolerant.... Only they're intolerant of different things.
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Different
Different Things
People
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For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
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Abandon
Forever
Path
Choose
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Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
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Humans
Immortality
Mortality
Obsession
Chose
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A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.
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Clear
Memories
Results
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Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
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Ancestor
Balance
Fragile
Humans
Upset
Ancestors
Established
Upsetting
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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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Quality
Immortality
Mean
Quality Time
Want
Time Me Quality
Does
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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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Can Do
Knowing
Real
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Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.
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Anthropology
Fiction
Past
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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
Collapse
Ecosystems
Gas
Our World
Weight
Closed
Ecosystem
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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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Behavior
Contradiction
Fascinating
Human Behavior
Humans
Contradictions
Maddening
Same Time
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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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Earth
Facts
Humans
Significant
Someday
Thinking
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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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Break Up
Love
True Love
Hate
Sentimental
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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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Earth
Humans
Satisfied
Taken
Unique
Perhaps
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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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Body
Deeper
Deeper Meaning
Listeners
Myth
Naked
Relate
Tradition
Clothed
Easily
Each Time
Meaning
Storytellers
Traditions
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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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Balance
Intervals
Long
Order
Designed
Maintain
Placed
Reproduce
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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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Queens
Equilibrium
Natural World
Needs
Snow
World
Queen
Seek
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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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Anthropology
Existence
Holistic
Human Existence
Kind
Study
Views
Aspects
Developed
Listed
Studying
Vital
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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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Doe
Equal
Matter
Our Lives
Our Society
Recognition
Forms
Enrich
Grant
How Much
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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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Age
Attacking
Cruelty
Illness
Loved Ones
Old Age
Woe
Worry
Besides
Fatal
Woes
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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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Character
Decided
Female
Female Characters
Strong
Strong Female
Writing
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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
Needs
Trying
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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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Age
Culture
Emerging
Goddess
Sea
Unconscious
Venus
Ages
Basic
Cultures
Disparate
Themes
Throughout
Widely
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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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Goddess
Myth
Perfect
Writing
Escaped
Fragment
Springboard
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I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.
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Common Ground
Discovering
Reader
Willing
Participant
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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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Queens
Inspiration
Past
Snow
Writing
Drew
Frequently
Queen
Inspirations
Involve
Suppose
Societies
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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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Age
Comfort
Eye
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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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Ancient
Comfort
Conservative
Ears
New Age
Ritual
Blindly
Cover
Inclined
Seek
Narrow
Traditions
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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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Queens
Character
Choices
Fate
Heart
Snow
Ultimate
Fates
Forced
Futures
Hearts
Queen
Minds
Profoundly
Unexpectedly
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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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Change
Health
Appearance
Born
Characteristics
Lays
Personality
Physical Health
Unique
Life Change Health
Basic
Blueprint
Experiences
Genetic
Life Experiences
Well
Physical
Which
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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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Science
Compelled
Fantasy
Genre
Nonfiction
Reading
Science Fiction
Variety
Wide
Writing
Science Literature Science Fiction
Bestseller
Climb
Enjoy Reading
Likely
Mysteries
Onto
Science Literature Fantasy
Wide Variety
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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
Hero
Liars
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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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Giving
Hate
Stronger
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