“Be on your way; this is holy soil.” “How can you be so sure? It looks like ordinary dirt.” - Jack Vance

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“Be on your way; this is holy soil.”
“How can you be so sure? It looks like ordinary dirt.”

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About Jack Vance

John Holbrook Vance (August 28, 1916 – May 26, 2013) was an award-winning science fiction and fantasy author, who wrote the four-book Dying Earth series.

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Birth Name: John Holbrook Vance
Alternative Names: John H. Vance
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I would define ‘avarice’ as a consequence of the human estate: a condition arising from turbulence and inequality. In none of the paradises, where conditions are no doubt optimum, does ‘avarice’ exert force. Here, we are men struggling toward perfection and ‘avarice’ is a station along the way.

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