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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.
Jack Vance
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Jack Vance
Age: 96 †
Born: 1916
Born: August 28
Died: 2013
Died: May 26
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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San Francisco County
California
John Holbrook Vance
Jack Vance
John H. Vance
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.
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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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Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
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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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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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I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
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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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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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I give dignity second place to expedience.
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Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
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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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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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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 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 don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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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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