I can tell you this at least. The most convincing disguise … - Jack Vance

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I can tell you this at least. The most convincing disguise for legitimacy is legitimacy itself.

Jack Vance

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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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Robert Silverberg Robert A. Heinlein Robert Sheckley Michael Moorcock Iain Banks

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Shimrod said: “Once I thought of you as a child in a woman’s body.”
Melancthe smiled a cool smile. “And now?”
“The child seems to have wandered away.”

Revenge is not an ignoble motive, when it works to a productive end.

All religions grew from human dread of death, reflected Travec—the brassier the claims for afterlife, the more popular the creed.

I can tell you this at least. The most convincing disguise for legitimacy is legitimacy itself. - Jack Vance

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