Jack Vance Quotes
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'I'm sure you didn’t mean to hurt anyone.'Madoc Roswyn laughed a soft forlorn laugh. 'The sad truth is that I didn’t care-which may be worse.'
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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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'When one deals with the Murthe, the unthinkable becomes the ordinary, and Zanzel's repute carries no more weight than last year's mouse-dropping - if that much.'
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Who is seducing whom? If we are working to the same ends, there is no need for so many cross-purposes.
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The town’s lack of special quirks was almost a peculiarity in itself.
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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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Aillas replied that while King Audry cited several points of technical interest, and used the resources of abstract logic in an adroit manner, he had actually made no connection with reality.
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'Here you see the pattern from which my great work is derived. It expresses the symbolic significance of NULLITY to which TOTALITY must necessarily attach itself, by Kratinjae's Second Law of Cryptorrhoid Affinities, with which you are possibly familiar.' <br.> 'Not in every aspect,' said Cugel.
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And I understand they are, in a sense, artists? That is to say, they understand the creative process, the sublimation of fact to symbol and the use of symbol to suggest emotion?
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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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'If ambush I must, then ambush I will,' Aillas muttered to himself. 'A fig for chivalry, at least until the war is won.'
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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.
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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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Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
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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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Guyal reined his horse and reflected that flowers were rarely cherished by persons of hostile disposition.
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Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
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'The crime,' said the Jacynth softly, 'is abstract and fundamental: the innate depravity of extinguishing life.'
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I have seen all I care to see and heard rather more.
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'My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.'
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'We are supposed to set you a good example,' said Devonet. 'As a start, I will point out that a lady of refinement would not wish to be found so high in a tree.''Then I am a lady of refinement well and truly,' said Madouc, 'since I did not wish to be found.'