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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

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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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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
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Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.
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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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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
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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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Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
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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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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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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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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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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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