Jack Vance Quotes
1916–2013 United States
John Holbrook Vance (August 28, 1916 – May 26, 2013) was an award-winning science fiction and fantasy author, who wrote the four-book Dying Earth series.
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Also known as: Vance, Jack, Lyonesse Trilogy
296 quotes
Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
I’d rather be a live pessimist than a dead comedian.
It is foolish to be outraged by a fact of nature.
A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
Your analyses at times border upon the mordant.
I give dignity second place to expedience.
His brain ached with the want of knowing.
You will have useful work: the destruction of evil men. What work could be more useful?
“Bah,” muttered Sul. “I am unable to chop logic with you; you have the superior sleight with words.”
“May I inquire as to your motives?”
“Why do you trouble to ask? You would believe nothing told you.”
“I admit to what may be an obtrusive curiosity.”
“The quality signifies an active mind,” said Reith.
“Are they material?”
“They exist; therefore they are material. Is this not a universal truth?”
Sir, my life, drab and insipid though it may seem to others, is the only life given me to live.
A people’s soul was pictured in its architecture: such was the aphorism of the ancient sage.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jack Vance (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.