“I challenge Destiny, yes, but I do not leap off cliffs.”

— Jack Vance, Dying Earth

Source: Dying Earth (1950-1984), Cugel's Saga (1983), Chapter 1, section 2, "The Inn of Blue Lamps"

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American mystery and speculative fiction writer 1916–2013

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