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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
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John H. Vance
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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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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I'd never been published when I was young.
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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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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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Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.
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Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.
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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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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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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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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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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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Good music always defeats bad luck
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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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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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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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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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