“The life we’ve been leading couldn’t last forever. It’s a wonder it lasted as long as it did.”

—  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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