"Good music always defeats bad luck" — Jack Vance
"Good music always defeats bad luck"
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Jack Vance
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45 Quotes by Jack Vance
Jack Vance has 45 quotes on this site.
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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…
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The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges…
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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…
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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…
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Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own…
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This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails…
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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on…
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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…
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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…
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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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More Always Defeats Quotes
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one of 11 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the…
— Bertolt Brecht
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Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
— Matt Taibbi
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In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more,
— Laura Ziskin
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You can't work three hours a week and make $100,000. Get rich quick doesn't work. Crock pot mentality always defeats…
— Dave Ramsey
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Sadly the very thing that strikes us as obvious always defeats our thinking about it in more penetrating ways: just…
— Kenny Smith
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A word too much always defeats its purpose.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of…
— Henry Steele Commager
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Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.
— Terry Pratchett
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In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
— Matt Taibbi
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The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society…
— Henry Steele Commager
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