Jack Vance - Thought Quotes

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An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

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What, given the circumstances, would have been Emphyrio's course of action?
Truth.
Very well, thought Ghyl: it shall be Truth, and let the consequences fall where they may.

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Your thoughts move with the deft precision of worm-tracks in the mud.

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Shimrod said: Once I thought of you as a child in a woman's body.
Melancthe smiled a cool smile. And now?
The child seems to have wandered away.

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The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is.

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Poor Pymfyd! Your world is built of fear and dread! As for me, I have no time for such emotions.
Pymfyd spoke in an even voice. You are a royal princess and I may not call you a witless little fool, even should the thought cross my mind.
Madouc turned him a sad blue-eyed glance. So that, after all, is your concept of me.
I will say only this: persons who fear nothing are soon dead.

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The mind was a marvellous instrument, thought Shimrod; when left to wander untended, it often arrived at curious destinations.

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