Jack Vance Quotes
If one basic axiom controls the cosmos, it must be this: In a situation of infinity every possible condition occurs, not once, but an infinite number of times.
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Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
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After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.
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I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
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Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
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The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terrific and the last ten minutes stinks, everybody walks out of the theatre and says: 'That was a lousy movie!'
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If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'
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I feel honored that the Hispanic community in the United States have embraced me. I'm really happy and honored to receive their support.
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
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The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.
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The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
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Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.
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To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.
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Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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I wish I could prove that he hypnotized me... That would give me a reason for doing such a dumb thing.
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If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?
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Stripped of her calculated clothes and the careful camouflage of her make-up she was tired, unalluring, middle-aged. And that was something she would never admit to herself, for most of the illusion of beauty is the conviction of beauty.
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If one basic axiom controls the cosmos, it must be this: In a situation of infinity every possible condition occurs, not once, but an infinite number of times.
