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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.
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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I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.
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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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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 haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
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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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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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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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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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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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I'd never been published when I was young.
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Truth is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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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 was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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