“Consider the human mind! It is capable of amazing feats when used properly. Conversely, without exercise it atrophies to a lump of gray-yellow fat.”

— Jack Vance , book Showboat World

Source: Showboat World (1975), Chapter 7 (p. 83)

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American mystery and speculative fiction writer 1916–2013

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