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I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory. — Jack Vance

Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted. — Jack Vance

I suffer from a spiritual malaise which manifests itself in outbursts of vicious rage. — Jack Vance

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life. — Jack Vance

The police mentality cannot regard a human being in terms other than as an item or object to be processed as expeditiously as possible. — Jack Vance

Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit. — Jack Vance

I give dignity second place to expedience. — Jack Vance

Why make plans? The sun might well go out tomorrow. — Jack Vance

In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford. — Jack Vance

The Vine of Life grows a single melon. The color of the heart is unknown until the rind is split. — Jack Vance

Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know. — Jack Vance

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me. — Jack Vance

Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all. — Jack Vance

Have been prisoner, slave, fugitive, and now king, which I prefer. — Jack Vance

I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough. — Jack Vance

Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real. — Jack Vance

I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies. — Jack Vance

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love. — Jack Vance

I become drunk as circumstances dictate. — Jack Vance

It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality. — Jack Vance

I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters. — Jack Vance

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought. — Jack Vance

I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast. — Jack Vance

My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance. — Jack Vance

Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic. — Jack Vance

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything. — Jack Vance

The symbologist made a cryptic sign. That remains to be seen, as the cat said who voided into the sugar bowl. — Jack Vance

Somebody else's ignorance is bliss. — Jack Vance

I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise. — Jack Vance

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book. — Jack Vance

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance. — Jack Vance

One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation. — Jack Vance

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. — Jack Vance

I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own free will; it cannot be belabored. — Jack Vance

I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to. — Jack Vance

Living creatures, if nothing else, have the right to life. It is their only truly precious possession, and the stealing of life is a wicked theft — Jack Vance

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things. — Jack Vance

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do. — Jack Vance

But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection. — Jack Vance

Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess. — Jack Vance

I've been a fan of Jack Vance since before I was in high school. — Ann Leckie

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian. — Jack Vance

Good music always defeats bad luck. — Jack Vance

I am Chun the Unavoidable. Tonight, O Lith, tonight it is two long bright threads for you. — Jack Vance

I never worked in an office in my life. — Jack Vance

Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere. — Jack Vance

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment. — Jack Vance

Let us leave this room, said Melancthe. It reeks of the brain. — Jack Vance

Candor is never indiscreet. Truth, which is to say, the reflection of life, is beautiful. — Jack Vance

You are young; you have hopes. One by one they will go, and nothing will be left but the bare fact of life. — Jack Vance

Truth is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world. — Jack Vance

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all. — Jack Vance

I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing! — Jack Vance

The world now lacks a " Sir Pom-pom", with all his funny ways! I wonder where he is now? Or is he anywhere at all? Can someone be nowhere? — Jack Vance

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write. — Jack Vance

Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. - Popular aphorism. — Jack Vance

In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you. — Jack Vance

The world is a place of marvels — Jack Vance

How I hate you," he said softly. "If hate were stone I could build a tower into the clouds. — Jack Vance

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain ... The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension. — Jack Vance

I am not partial to folk who are grim and austere. I prefer fanciful folk who make me laugh. — Jack Vance

If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them. — Jack Vance

I'd never been published when I was young. — Jack Vance

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time. — Jack Vance

Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty. — Jack Vance

Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies. — Jack Vance

My talismans are not obviously useless. — Jack Vance

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet. — Jack Vance

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction. — Jack Vance

I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell. — Jack Vance

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

You are evil like all existence ... If power were mine I would crush the universe to bloody gravel and stamp into the ultimate muck! — Jack Vance

We prostrate ourselves before the fish-god Yob, who seems as efficacious as any. — Jack Vance

The life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did. — Jack Vance

Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. — Jack Vance

Someone who conceals his curiosity, is overwhelmed with information. — Jack Vance

I live in a constant flux; I am unable to make fixed plans. — Jack Vance

I am a dull fellow ... my person reeks, my conversation consists of insipid platitudes. — Jack Vance

When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent. — Jack Vance

Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing? — Jack Vance

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. — Jack Vance

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed. — Jack Vance

It is thus because it has always been thus. Is not this reason enough? — Jack Vance

T'sain shrugged. "I have lived little, and I am not wise. Yet I know that everyone is entitled to life. — Jack Vance