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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7f8de84 | Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic! | Jack Vance | ||
| 376ebb2 | It had been suggested to her that the flaw lay not in the universe but in herself. | Jack Vance | ||
| 0c4778b | My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance." | Jack Vance | ||
| a7a966d | His brain ached with the want of knowing. | Jack Vance | ||
| b4c49b0 | I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise. | Jack Vance | ||
| 7048451 | Yes, I realize that I see but a semblance, but so do you, and who is to say which is real? | Jack Vance | ||
| bd2b456 | The contingency is remote." (This is also a Jeeves quote in the PG Wodehouse Novels) | Jack Vance | ||
| 99673e0 | I am not called Cugel the Clever for nothing. | Jack Vance | ||
| 13706ae | Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all. | Jack Vance | ||
| e4509d8 | The purportedly free was seldom as represented. | Jack Vance | ||
| 5923693 | All is mutability, and thus your three hundred terces has fluctuated to three." | Jack Vance | ||
| 3d4d548 | I challenge Destiny, yes, but I do not leap off cliffs. | Jack Vance | ||
| f357a2c | An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought. | Jack Vance | ||
| be7769e | It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality. | Jack Vance | ||
| 2936658 | I give dignity second place to expedience. | Jack Vance | ||
| d149e5b | We need no chieftain; such folk eat more than their share. | Jack Vance | ||
| 3b2f796 | You will have useful work: the destruction of evil men. What work could be more useful? | Jack Vance | ||
| 14751bb | Revenge is not an ignoble motive, when it works to a productive end. | Jack Vance | ||
| 9ff3169 | Conjecture without facts was useless; he must deal with events as they occurred. | Jack Vance | ||
| 3c3f75f | Who are our basic enemies? This is a secret, unknown even to those basic enemies. | Jack Vance | ||
| c659e97 | The tighter the discipline of an art form, the more subjective the criteria of taste. | Jack Vance | ||
| d7b5a68 | Destiny could not bring him this far only to deal him failure! | Jack Vance | ||
| 04e4b1c | A detached attitude toward the problems of others is not illegal. | Jack Vance | ||
| 9e0f189 | And thereby hangs a tale," as the monkey said while describing the cat's rear-quarters. | Jack Vance | ||
| cb32b1a | Money lost, little lost.Pluck lost, all lost. | Jack Vance | ||
| 61aa75a | A man without friends is a tree without leaves. | Jack Vance | ||
| 9618a81 | Art implies discipline; the more excellent the art, the more rigorous the discipline. | Jack Vance | ||
| 71a7d38 | What good is notoriety if your friends are unable to profit from it? | Jack Vance | ||
| 87808d9 | Be on your way; this is holy soil.""How can you be so sure? It looks like ordinary dirt." | Jack Vance | ||
| c2ecb70 | I can tell you this at least. The most convincing disguise for legitimacy is legitimacy itself. | Jack Vance | ||
| c429123 | Remember, not all lawyers are fools! | Jack Vance | ||
| a8aaaed | What are you doing here?""I'm looking at you, and grateful for the opportunity." | Jack Vance | ||
| a9e93cf | The seconds marched past, traversing that mysterious boundary which separates future from past. | Jack Vance | ||
| 573ea90 | My wealth is my shelf of books! | Jack Vance | ||
| 2dec4e4 | It does no good to hurry here. In fact, it may even be against the law. | Jack Vance | ||
| 8d15a72 | Your analyses at times border upon the mordant. | Jack Vance | ||
| 63bf9fd | Vengeance is not the most noble activity, but submissiveness is worse. | Jack Vance | ||
| bc377cd | This is an insane society, constrained by punctilio as a rotten egg is held by its shell. | Jack Vance | ||
| e329972 | A person who calls facts absurdities will often be surprised. | Jack Vance | ||
| c1cf7e0 | Where cowards never venture, heroes find splendor. | Jack Vance | ||
| e53874e | They consider garrulity a crime against nature. | Jack Vance | ||
| cc0e2ec | Evidently you do not trust me. This does not predispose me to trust you. | Jack Vance | ||
| 86fc9d8 | Do you deny the charges?""I neither confirm nor deny them; they are ridiculous." | Jack Vance | ||
| c14e7cd | Surveillance portended unpleasant events: this on Tschai was an axiom of existence. | Jack Vance |