Jack Vance Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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I started out doing musicals.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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There's always that stigma of, 'Women shouldn't box,' or stereotypes of what a female boxer should look like. I don't think the men really have to deal with that - to tell people they're a boxer.
Mandy Bujold
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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Fifteen percent of Russia badly polluted.
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Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while now captain of the adventuring ship, is hardly the sole object of its quest, and that his prior assumptions to this effect arose from the simple necessity of whistling in the dark.These things, I say, should have come to us. I fear they have not come to many.
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Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
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Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
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I fear, Master Zamp, that you are a victim to your own perfervid imagination.
