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Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
Jack Vance
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Jack Vance
Age: 96 †
Born: 1916
Born: August 28
Died: 2013
Died: May 26
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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San Francisco County
California
John Holbrook Vance
Jack Vance
John H. Vance
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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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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I'd never been published when I was young.
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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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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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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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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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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.
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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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