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• When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.

  Jack Vance

  Thinking, Style, Demand

  Jack Vance (2011). “The Languages of Pao”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

  Jack Vance

  Science, Fiction, Sake

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• Why make plans? The sun might well go out tomorrow.

  Jack Vance

  Might, Sun, Tomorrow

  Jack Vance (2000). “Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight: (previously titled Cugel's Saga)”, p.576, Macmillan

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• I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

  Jack Vance

  Years, Half, Firsts

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• But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

  Jack Vance

  Jobs, Inspection, Has Beens

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• I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

  Jack Vance

  Book, Reading, Reading Books

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• But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

  Jack Vance

  Writing, Computer, Speak

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• But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

  Jack Vance

  Book, Influence, Enormous

  Jack Vance (2007). “The Jack Vance Treasury”, Subterranean

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• In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.

  Jack Vance

  Dying, Satisfaction, Ends

  Jack Vance (1966). “The Last Castle”, p.5, Spatterlight Press

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• I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

  Jack Vance

  Book, Writing, Done

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• I never worked in an office in my life.

  Jack Vance

  Office

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• I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

  Jack Vance

  Airplane, Automobile

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• I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

  Jack Vance

  Watches, Carpenter

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• Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.

  Jack Vance

  Moving, Magic, Blast

  Jack Vance (2000). “Mazirian the Magician: (previously titled The Dying Earth)”, p.10, Macmillan

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• This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.

  Jack Vance

  Art, Fall, Serenity

  Jack Vance (2000). “Mazirian the Magician: (previously titled The Dying Earth)”, p.13, Macmillan

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• I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

  Jack Vance

  Movie, Checks, Enormous

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• I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

  Jack Vance

  Science, Fiction, Science Fiction

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• I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

  Jack Vance

  Stars, War, Tickets

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• If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.

  Jack Vance

  Would Be, Maidens, Minstrels

  Jack Vance (1965). “The Dragon Masters”, p.58, Spatterlight Press

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• As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

  Jack Vance

  Carpenter

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• Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.

  Jack Vance

  Book, Fairy Tale, Century

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• Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.

  Jack Vance

  Pertinent Questions, Assuming, Wit

  Jack Vance (2000). “Rhialto the Marvellous”, p.720, Macmillan

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