Famous quote by Jack Vance

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"But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me"

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This quote is written / told by Jack Vance somewhere between August 28, 1916 and today. He/she was a famous Author from USA. The author also have 29 other quotes.

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"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions"

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"

"No two persons ever read the same book"

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

John Donne, Poet

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile"

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth"

"Years teach us more than books"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts"

"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience"