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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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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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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Mark Hughes at his very best: he loves to feel people right behind him.
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What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.
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I fear, Master Zamp, that you are a victim to your own perfervid imagination.
