Jack Vance Quotes
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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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You are a particularly clever girl: almost as clever as you are appealing to the eye.
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I still feel that we should act with restraint. It’s much easier not to do than to undo.
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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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'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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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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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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He must approach the subject critically, alert for contradictions, pedantry and vagueness.
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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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The town’s lack of special quirks was almost a peculiarity in itself.
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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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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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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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'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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'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 crime,' said the Jacynth softly, 'is abstract and fundamental: the innate depravity of extinguishing life.'
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'My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.'
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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 have seen all I care to see and heard rather more.
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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.