Jack Vance Quotes
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The life we’ve been leading couldn’t last forever. It’s a wonder it lasted as long as it did.
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Ildefonse said ponderously: 'If your analysis is correct, we must undertake to secure the future against this pangynic nightmare.'
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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.'
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His brain ached with the want of knowing.
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A single question remained, the age-old cry of anguish: 'How could one so beautiful be so base?'
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The purportedly free was seldom as represented.
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic!
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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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Sir, my life, drab and insipid though it may seem to others, is the only life given me to live.
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We’ll rack our brains and either solve your problem or come up come up with new and better ones.
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I have seen all I care to see and heard rather more.
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The town’s lack of special quirks was almost a peculiarity in itself.
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They call me a renegade.The epithet is inaccurate and undeserved. I cannot be faithless to a cause which I never have endorsed. Indeed, I am absolutely faithful to the only cause I espouse, which is my own welfare. I take pride in this unswerving loyalty!
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'At Gundar we conceive 'innocence' as a positive quality, not merely an insipid absence of guilt,' stated the Nolde. 'We are not the fools that certain untidy ruffians might suppose.'
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Yes, I realize that I see but a semblance, but so do you, and who is to say which is real?
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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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Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.
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If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.
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'I was trained in the old tradition! We found our strength in the basic verities, to which you, as a patrician, must surely subscribe. Am I right in this?''Absolutely, and in all respects!' declared Cugel. 'Recognizing, of course, that these fundamental verities vary from region to region, and even from person to person.'
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He must approach the subject critically, alert for contradictions, pedantry and vagueness.
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You are a particularly clever girl: almost as clever as you are appealing to the eye.
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He adjudicated the case in a manner I still find perplexing, but which must have been equitable, since it pleased no one.
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Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
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I fear, Master Zamp, that you are a victim to your own perfervid imagination.