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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4da1f2b | Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law. | Jack Valenti | ||
| e748e66 | There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use. | Jack Valenti | ||
| 7cb1698 | Fair use is not in the law. | Jack Valenti | ||
| d63a2ff | We'll rack our brains and either solve your problem or come up come up with new and better ones. | Jack Vance | ||
| 9b3c173 | If the past is a house of many chambers, then the present is the most recent coat of paint. | Jack Vance | ||
| 35484cb | I still feel that we should act with restraint. It's much easier not to do than to undo. | Jack Vance | ||
| b450712 | I'd rather be a live pessimist than a dead comedian. | Jack Vance | ||
| 912e9e7 | My brain, otherwise a sound instrument, has a serious defect--a hypertrophied lobe of curiosity. | Jack Vance | ||
| aa15b45 | I'm only giving orders because I'm more efficient and smarter than you are. | Jack Vance | ||
| 4b737ce | Damned meddlers. It's hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it's just curiosity. | Jack Vance | ||
| afac3c8 | He must approach the subject critically, alert for contradictions, pedantry and vagueness. | Jack Vance | ||
| 73986d8 | Another busy day! So let's to business. The clock moves forward; wasted time is life defeated! | Jack Vance | ||
| 306e15c | A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian. | Jack Vance | ||
| 289b225 | Your thoughts move with the deft precision of worm-tracks in the mud. | Jack Vance | ||
| f40090a | Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know. | Jack Vance | ||
| ce4a0de | If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them. | Jack Vance | ||
| c8f37a1 | He was neither lazy nor incompetent; he merely had occupational claustrophobia. | Jack Vance | ||
| 1bbcc20 | The life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did. | Jack Vance | ||
| e1eff86 | Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real. | Jack Vance | ||
| 44b8cc0 | Control is necessary and even good--so long as I do the controlling. | Jack Vance | ||
| 2cfff3c | Tomorrow?""Sh." She put her hand across his lips. "Never say the word!" | Jack Vance | ||
| b1b8ada | IF THERE BE HERE LESSON OR MORAL, IT LIES BEYOND THE COMPETENCE OF HIM WHO INSCRIBES THIS RECORD. | Jack Vance | ||
| 78d4efc | Often their grievances were real; often they complained from sheer petulance. | Jack Vance | ||
| 8952328 | The travesty exists only because reliance upon abstraction has made reality incomprehensible to you. | Jack Vance | ||
| 0ef1e0e | The town's lack of special quirks was almost a peculiarity in itself. | Jack Vance | ||
| 37ac0db | Let him talk as he will!" scoffed Zamp. "His motives are not at all obscure." | Jack Vance | ||
| 91cbbcc | I fear, Master Zamp, that you are a victim to your own perfervid imagination. | Jack Vance | ||
| 638d74b | My fees are not too high. Your wage scale may simply be too low. | Jack Vance | ||
| 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 |