Jack Vance Quotes
I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
Jack Vance
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
G. Willow Wilson
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
Victor LaValle
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
Adam Pascal
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Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.
Naval Ravikant
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As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
Aaron Rodgers
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
P. J. O'Rourke
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When you give as a family, not only are you sharing the happiness that giving brings you by watching it translate into positive change, but you are also transmitting your giving values to your children by engaging them in the giving process itself.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
Madeleine de Scudery
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
Damon Lindelof
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A number of countries, including some who have loudly criticized the NSA, privately acknowledge that America has special responsibilities as the world's only superpower, that our intelligence capabilities are critical to meeting these responsibilities, and that they themselves have relied on the information we obtain to protect their own people.
Barack Obama
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"Herbal medicine's been around for thousands of years!" Indeed it has, and then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became 'medicine'. And the rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and some potpourri.
Dara O Briain
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I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
Jack Vance
