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A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope it's lessening the tension.
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
Men
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Rope
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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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Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
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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 never worked in an office in my life.
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I give dignity second place to expedience.
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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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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
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An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
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I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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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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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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