Jack Vance Quotes
'All is mutability, and thus your three hundred terces has fluctuated to three.'
Jack Vance
Quotes to Explore
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
Maajid Nawaz
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
Barton Gellman
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I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
Yul Brynner
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
Gary Wolf
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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Football is my true love. I played with boys until I was 11 and then for a girls' club in Middlesbrough until I was 16.
Faye Marsay
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If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.
Omar Torrijos Herrera
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Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work.
Carl Honore
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
Oliver Goldsmith
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It takes a lot of intellect to have faith, which is why so many people only have religiosity.... I'm against people taking the Bible absolutely literally, rather than letting some of it be real fantasy, like Jonah... Faith is best expressed in story.
Madeleine L'Engle
