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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.

Jack Vance

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Jack Vance
Age: 96 †
Born: 1916
Born: August 28
Died: 2013
Died: May 26
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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San Francisco County
California
John Holbrook Vance
Jack Vance
John H. Vance
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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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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
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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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An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
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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 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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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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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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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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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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I give dignity second place to expedience.
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Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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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 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 haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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