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Jack Vance Inspirational Quotes (43)

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Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.
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Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.
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An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
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The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care.
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Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
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Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
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Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.
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There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.
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I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
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I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.
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How to know, oh how to know! All is relative ease and facility in orthodoxy, yet how can it be denied that good is in itself undeniable? Absolutes are the most uncertain of all formulations, while the uncertainties are the most real.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.
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Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
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Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.
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