Jack Vance Quotes
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You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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I'm definitely a foodie.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.
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In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.
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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.
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Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a science fiction short story centered around the idea of an alien tax code, and the idea that you can understand a society by parsing its tax code.
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The more you study quantum mechanics, the more crazy and incomprehensible it becomes. You truly do need a Ph.D. in very high level math and science to understand it at a high, high level.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
