Quotes
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Jack Vance

"Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient explanations of the obvious, fleeting allusions to the unthinkable. As a preliminary, the conversationalist must gauge the mood, the intelligence and the verbal facility of the company. To this end, a few words of pedantic exposition often prove invaluable."

-- Jack Vance

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“Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.”

Source : Robert Hugh Benson (1913). “Papers of a Pariah”
“I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.”
“Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross national product is not a pizza that must be carefully divided because if I get too many slices, you have to eat the box. The economy is expandable and, in any practical sense, limitless.”
“There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.”
“Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks.”
“The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written - or anybody else, for that matter. Especially the second part went to my brain like the flaming liquor of insanity. No one else besides Jack London has the power to move me just that way.”
“Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry class at St. Paul's School.”

Source : 'Biography for Beginners' (1905) 'Sir Humphrey Davy'

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