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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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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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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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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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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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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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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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Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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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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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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Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
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Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.
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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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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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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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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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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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I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.
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