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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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Fiction
Science

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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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I never worked in an office in my life.
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I give dignity second place to expedience.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
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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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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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Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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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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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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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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I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.
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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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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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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 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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Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.
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