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Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.

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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
Tales
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Greatest
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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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I give dignity second place to expedience.
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Good music always defeats bad luck
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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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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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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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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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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.
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Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
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I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
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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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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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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
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Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.
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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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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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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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An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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