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Jack Vance Inspirational Quotes (43)

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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
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Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.
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Truth is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places when we are dead, the opportunity is past.
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I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man's accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.
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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope it's lessening the tension.
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Good music always defeats bad luck
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I give dignity second place to expedience.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.
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Notice this rent in my garment I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.
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The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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