"Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty."

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Jack Vance

“When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment.”
“I am only known for my boobs and tats.”

Source : The Metro, April 02, 2012.
“A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.”
“When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do in every situation because it's a very, very fast paced business. You do ninety pages a day on a Soap Opera. It's insane. It's such a small world, the soaps. It's all contained in one little studio.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.”
“You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.”
“A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.”

Source : Lawrence Lessig (2002). “The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World”, p.5, Vintage
“I know what the structure of the language is.”

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