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I never worked in an office in my life.

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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
Worked
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Never
Life

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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
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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 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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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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Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
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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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I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
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Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.
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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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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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Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
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I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.
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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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I'd never been published when I was young.
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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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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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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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