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Jack Vance

"I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do."

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Amber Hurdle

"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

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Amber Hurdle

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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Amber Hurdle

"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

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"Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent."

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Amber Hurdle

"It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going."

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Amber Hurdle

"There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do."

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Amber Hurdle

"Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future."

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Amber Hurdle

"Minutes remain the same length whether they are held against the span of years or minutes themselves. Yet, when minutes are held against themselves, they seem so terribly brief. Therefore, we'd be wise to celebrate life before minutes are all that's left."

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Amber Hurdle

"Summer's lease hath all too short a date."

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"I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell."
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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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"There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was."
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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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"Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it."
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Jack Vance
"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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"These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything."
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"I never worked in an office in my life."
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"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."
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"I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough."
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