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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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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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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.
Jack Vance
I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
Jack Vance
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.
Jack Vance
Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
Jack Vance
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.
Jack Vance
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
Jack Vance
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.
Jack Vance
I never worked in an office in my life.
Jack Vance
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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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.
Jack Vance
I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
Jack Vance
Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
Jack Vance
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.
Jack Vance
Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
Jack Vance
I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
Jack Vance
This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.
Jack Vance
I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.
Jack Vance
Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
Jack Vance
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.
Jack Vance
