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Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

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
Command
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Beauty
Never
Erotic
Love
Organic
Yearning
Compelled
Admiration

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