Jack Vance Quotes
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It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.
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'It is no hardship whatever,' said Aillas. 'You have never strained at the deed. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and suddenly you find the idea incredible. Do you not sense a taint of unreality?'
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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I may be called upon to address the company. No one will listen, of course, which is just as well, since I have nothing to say.
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I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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'You must save yourselves,' Rogol Domedonfors told them. 'You have ignored the ancient wisdom, you have been too indolent to learn, you have sought easy complacence from religion, rather than facing manfully to the world.'
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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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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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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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We need no chieftain; such folk eat more than their share.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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Another busy day! So let’s to business. The clock moves forward; wasted time is life defeated!
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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 I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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Roger tried to find out all about her: he wanted, in one brief hour, to make up for a lifetime of non-acquaintance, a lifetime for all practical purposes wasted.
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A notable scheme has occurred to me.
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In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.