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Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.

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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
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Truth is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
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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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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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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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Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
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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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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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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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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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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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Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
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Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.
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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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