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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
Young
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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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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I never worked in an office in my life.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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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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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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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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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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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 categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.
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Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.
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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 haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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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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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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I give dignity second place to expedience.
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