Jack Vance

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1916-08-28

Books by Jack Vance

Dying Earth - Baen
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The Hugo Winners [volume I]
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The Eyes of the Overworld
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Where was his knife, upon which he relied? He had cut cheese for their noonday meal, and had packed the knife away with the cheese.Aillas said: 'Sir, before we continue with this matter, may I offer you a bite of cheese?''I care for no cheese, though it is an amusing concept.''In that case, allow me a moment while I cut a morsel or two for myself, as I hunger.''I have no time to spare while you eat cheese; prepare instead for death.
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One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.
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I would offer congratulations were it not for this tentacle gripping my leg.
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I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!
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I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.
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Good music always defeats bad luck.
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If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.
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I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.
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If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.
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I would offer congratulations were it not for this tentacle gripping my leg.
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Good music always defeats bad luck.
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One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.
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Where was his knife, upon which he relied? He had cut cheese for their noonday meal, and had packed the knife away with the cheese.Aillas said: 'Sir, before we continue with this matter, may I offer you a bite of cheese?''I care for no cheese, though it is an amusing concept.''In that case, allow me a moment while I cut a morsel or two for myself, as I hunger.''I have no time to spare while you eat cheese; prepare instead for death.
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I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!
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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. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
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A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.
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It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
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These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.
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