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I'd never been published when I was young.
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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Young
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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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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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 give dignity second place to expedience.
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An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
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The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.
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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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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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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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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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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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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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Good music always defeats bad luck
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Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
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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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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
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