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Good music always defeats bad luck

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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
Defeat
Luck
Music
Good
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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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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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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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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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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 don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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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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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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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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I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.
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