"Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience."

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Source : "Emphyrio" by Jack Vance, (Chapter 9), 1969.

Jack Vance

#Motivational Quotes #Risk Quotes #Privilege Quotes

“I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.”

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“You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.”
“When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws, only catapults.”

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“Whence all this passion towards conformity anyway? Diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you will have no tyrant states. Why, if they follow this conformity business, they'll end up by forcing me, an invisible man, to become white, which is not a color but the lack of one. Must I strive towards colorlessness? But seriously and without snobbery, think of what the world would lose if that should happen. America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.”
“Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing.”
“You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates.”
“I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.”
“You know who you are you just have to believe it.”

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