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Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.

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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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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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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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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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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
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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.
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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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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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I never worked in an office in my life.
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Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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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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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.
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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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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