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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 still feel that we should act with restraint. It’s much easier not to do than to undo.
Jack Vance
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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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I suppose if you isolate yourself to such an extent, you more or less must expect a series of emergencies.
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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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You are a particularly clever girl: almost as clever as you are appealing to the eye.
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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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Dismount and kneel before me, that I may strike off your head with fullest ease. You shall die in this tragic golden light of sunset.
Jack Vance
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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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And, stretching in languid warmth, she contrived to twist her body into first one luxurious position, then another.
Jack Vance -
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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'Sir Tristano spoke: 'Stop! You are taking the great green pearl!''Naturally!' said the voice from a point close behind. 'That is the whole point of robbery: to acquire the victim’s valuables!'
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I fear, Master Zamp, that you are a victim to your own perfervid imagination.
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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.
Jack Vance
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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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A single question remained, the age-old cry of anguish: 'How could one so beautiful be so base?'
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He must approach the subject critically, alert for contradictions, pedantry and vagueness.
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The town’s lack of special quirks was almost a peculiarity in itself.
Jack Vance -
The creature displayed the qualities reminiscent of both coelenterate and echinoderm. A terrene nudibranch? A mollusc deprived of its shell? More importantly, was the creature edible?
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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!
Jack Vance
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'Navigation on this lake is forbidden to aliens,' he declared. 'We are ordered to sink all intruding vessels. Prepare to drown.'
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'The crime,' said the Jacynth softly, 'is abstract and fundamental: the innate depravity of extinguishing life.'
Jack Vance -
Sir, your ideas are incorrect in every possible respect.
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I have seen all I care to see and heard rather more.
Jack Vance