Jack Vance Short Quotes

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I have seen all I care to see and heard rather more.

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Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.

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Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.

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

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Sir, your ideas are incorrect in every possible respect.

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My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.

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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.

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We need no chieftain; such folk eat more than their share.

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Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.

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

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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic!

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My fees are not too high. Your wage scale may simply be too low.

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It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.

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You have frightened and daunted me. I will stop stealing at once.

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Control is necessary and even good—so long as I do the controlling.

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The town's lack of special quirks was almost a peculiarity in itself.

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Tomorrow?
Sh. She put her hand across his lips. Never say the word!

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

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Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.

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Let him talk as he will! scoffed Zamp. His motives are not at all obscure.

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I'm only giving orders because I'm more efficient and smarter than you are.

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I fear, Master Zamp, that you are a victim to your own perfervid imagination.

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All is mutability, and thus your three hundred terces has fluctuated to three.

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He was neither lazy nor incompetent; he merely had occupational claustrophobia.

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Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.

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Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.

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It had been suggested to her that the flaw lay not in the universe but in herself.

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Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.

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I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.

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You are a particularly clever girl: almost as clever as you are appealing to the eye.

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