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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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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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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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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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Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.
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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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I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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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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Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.
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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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An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
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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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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
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I give dignity second place to expedience.
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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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I never worked in an office in my life.
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