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There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.
Jack Vance
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Jack Vance
Age: 96 †
Born: 1916
Born: August 28
Died: 2013
Died: May 26
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Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.
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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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Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
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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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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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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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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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