Jack Vance Quotes
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.
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I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.
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Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.
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I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.
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What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.
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Faith, I have been a truant in the law And never yet could frame my will to it, And therefore frame the law unto my will.
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You don't think that mean people can be funny, and Jane Lynch is the epitome of that. If there could be, like, a gay version of 'Mean Girls,' I'd totally be in it.
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For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.
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I want to go public because I have the right reason to go public - because the benefits outweigh the costs.
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I still feel that we should act with restraint. It’s much easier not to do than to undo.
