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Quotes from Showboat World — Jack Vance

1916–2013 United States

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11 quotes

I fear, Master Zamp, that you are a victim to your own perfervid imagination.

Showboat World (1975)

“Let him talk as he will!” scoffed Zamp. “His motives are not at all obscure.”

Showboat World (1975)

Your character, Apollon Zamp, is marred by a certain paltriness of spirit, a diffused universal distrust which I truly deplore.

Showboat World (1975)

Consider the human mind! It is capable of amazing feats when used properly. Conversely, without exercise it atrophies to a lump of gray-yellow fat.

Showboat World (1975)

My fees are not too high. Your wage scale may simply be too low.

Showboat World (1975)

The town’s lack of special quirks was almost a peculiarity in itself.

Showboat World (1975)

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

Showboat World (1975)

Your doctrines are remarkable! As if I existed only to fulfill your cravings! Then, since I do not care to do so, the cosmos must be considered insane.

Showboat World (1975)

Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.

Showboat World (1975)

“Let them scoff as they see fit! I will never compromise what I consider my art, especially for the sake of gain!”
“For the sake of gain I’d compromise the art of my grandmother,” muttered Zamp under his breath.

Showboat World (1975)

“Navigation on this lake is forbidden to aliens,” he declared. “We are ordered to sink all intruding vessels. Prepare to drown.”

Showboat World (1975)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jack Vance (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.