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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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
Jack Vance
John H. Vance
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This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.
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Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.
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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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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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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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Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
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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'd never been published when I was young.
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Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.
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I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
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I give dignity second place to expedience.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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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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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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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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Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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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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