“Claghorn had long insisted that no human condition endured forever, with the corollary that the more complicated such a condition, the greater its susceptibility to change.”

—  Jack Vance , book The Last Castle

Source: The Last Castle (1966), Chapter 2, section 1

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American mystery and speculative fiction writer 1916–2013

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