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Jack Vance has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it.…
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The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at…
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual.…
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Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity…
— Alistair Cooke
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There were two different expectations in this land of the future. On the one hand the the optimistic belief in an unending…
— Jürgen Moltmann
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Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions…
— Jack Vance
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In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*.
— Jean-Philippe Rameau
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I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce myself. There's…
— Peter Greenaway
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You've never told me about your love life, Scarlett. You're a very pretty girl. You must have a boy shacked up somewhere…
— Maureen Johnson
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It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are…
— Edward Sapir
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