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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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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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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'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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We need no chieftain; such folk eat more than their share.
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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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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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A notable scheme has occurred to me.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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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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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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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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In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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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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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 never worked in an office in my life.
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Enough of this intolerable inanity! I propose that such loquacity passes beyond the scope of the nuisance and over the verge of turpitude.
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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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'I distrusted him from the start! Still, who could imagine such protean depravity?' Bunderwal, the supercargo, concurred. 'Cugel, while plausible, nonetheless is a bit of a scoundrel.'
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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.