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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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Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
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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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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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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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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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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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I never worked in an office in my life.
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An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
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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 haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.
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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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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 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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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
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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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I give dignity second place to expedience.
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