Jack Vance Quotes
'Enter, my friend, enter. How goes your trade?''In all candor, not too well,' said Cugel. 'I am both perplexed and disappointed, for my talismans are not obviously useless.'
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Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.'
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
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It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'
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The E.U. needs a strategy that marries a shared vision to common action.
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Fantasy isn't something you run out of.
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Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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It's important for Republicans to nominate someone who not only has a vision of how to create jobs, but who has done it. That's why I am endorsing Texas Governor Rick Perry for President.
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The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
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Struggling writers are often advised to pick a simple genre, but it doesn't work that way.
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Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.
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'Enter, my friend, enter. How goes your trade?''In all candor, not too well,' said Cugel. 'I am both perplexed and disappointed, for my talismans are not obviously useless.'
