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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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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented…
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.
— Tony Snow
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I'd like to be somewhere near Lawrence Taylor so I can keep an eye on that sucker,
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For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church…
— Douglas Sirk
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I'm not an expert in the deck at all. My interest lies somewhere near a sense that words are like tarot cards,…
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Some people speak of the Akashic Records as if they were on an IBM mainframe that's out there somewhere near the Restaurant…
— Frederick Lenz
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It's a risky thing to pray and the danger is that our very prayers get between God and us. The great thing…
— Thomas Merton
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The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below…
— Rajneesh
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
— Jack Vance
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Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.
— George Orwell
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I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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I’m alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows.
— Steven Herrick
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Sometimes you'll think you've got the best, but you don't. Sometimes you think you're heading in the right direction, but you ain't.…
— Unknown Author
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