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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| cefdf34 | Are musicians unlike other men? Beget and forget, that's how it goes. | Jack Vance | ||
| 5edd594 | I don't care a fig whether or not you are offended. | Jack Vance | ||
| 1f78fae | Events rush together. History occurs. | Jack Vance | ||
| 76c2667 | It is foolish to be outraged by a fact of nature. | Jack Vance | ||
| 3431628 | Never neglect the wonder of conscious existence, which too soon comes to an end! | Jack Vance | ||
| 6584335 | Your vision exceeds your practicality: often the case with a musician. | Jack Vance | ||
| f52538e | Ignorance induces suspicion. | Jack Vance | ||
| 4273b4c | I am not the man for this sort of business; I detest puzzlement. | Jack Vance | ||
| 5d40398 | Bah," muttered Sul. "I am unable to chop logic with you; you have the superior sleight with words." | Jack Vance | ||
| 3b8d75c | Which is better: cheap submission or expensive independence? | Jack Vance | ||
| d638f9b | What a strange and unfamiliar world if everyone were treated according to his deserts! | Jack Vance | ||
| c430184 | Die then. This is my cure for sore knees. | Jack Vance | ||
| f772b4c | A notable scheme has occurred to me. | Jack Vance | ||
| 4baaaec | You have frightened and daunted me. I will stop stealing at once. | Jack Vance | ||
| e05dcb1 | Sir, my life, drab and insipid though it may seem to others, is the only life given me to live. | Jack Vance | ||
| 592e866 | A single question remained, the age-old cry of anguish: "How could one so beautiful be so base?" | Jack Vance |