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An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
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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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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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
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Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
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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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A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.
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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.
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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'd never been published when I was young.
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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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Good music always defeats bad luck
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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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Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.
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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.
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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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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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Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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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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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.
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