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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.

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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Sell
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Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.
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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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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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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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