Quotes from To Live Forever — Jack Vance
1916–2013 United States
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“The crime,” said the Jacynth softly, “is abstract and fundamental: the innate depravity of extinguishing life.”
To Live Forever (1956)
He’s like an imbecile with a pepper shaker; a little makes his food taste good, therefore a lot will make it wonderful.
To Live Forever (1956)
The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is.
To Live Forever (1956)
Another busy day! So let’s to business. The clock moves forward; wasted time is life defeated!
To Live Forever (1956)
He must approach the subject critically, alert for contradictions, pedantry and vagueness.
To Live Forever (1956)
A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it’s lessening the tension.
To Live Forever (1956)
The history of man is a compendium of such evil. We are an evolutionary product, descendants of predators. A few synthetic foods aside, every morsel eaten by man is taken from another living thing. We are intended for murder; we kill to exist!
To Live Forever (1956)
“It is simple dog-eat-dog,” said Waylock. It’s basic battle for survival, fiercer and more brutal than ever before in the history of man. You have blinded yourself; you subscribe to false theories; you are permeated with your obsession—not only you but all of us. If we faced the facts of existence, our palliatories would be less crowded.”
To Live Forever (1956)