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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.

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
Presence
Loss
Existence
Garment
Universe
Puzzled
Even
Garments
Rent
Notice
Explain

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Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.
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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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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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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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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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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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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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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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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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