Jack Vance Quotes
'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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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.
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Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
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My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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I love a great melody and wonderful lyrics that speak from the heart, and my music has that and speaks about it; but there's just something that was really raw and energetic about the early House music. It's hard to describe. It's like you had to go to these parties where the stuff was being played on these huge sound systems to really feel it.
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.
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One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.
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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
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I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.
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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.'
