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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.

Jack Vance

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Jack Vance
Age: 96 †
Born: 1916
Born: August 28
Died: 2013
Died: May 26
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
San Francisco County
California
John Holbrook Vance
Jack Vance
John H. Vance
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Mischief
Blast
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Magic

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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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Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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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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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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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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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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I give dignity second place to expedience.
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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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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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