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Jack Vance Quotes

Jack Vance quotes

American Author August 28, 1916

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Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty. Jack Vance
Jack Vance quote: "Candor is never indiscreet. Truth, which is to say, the..."
Candor is never indiscreet. Truth, which is to say, the reflection of life, is beautiful. Jack Vance
This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late. Jack Vance
Jack Vance quote: "I never worked in an office in my life."
I never worked in an office in my life. Jack Vance
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it. Jack Vance
While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past. Jack Vance
Jack Vance quote: "Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a..."
Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted. Jack Vance
The Silver Samarsanda stood above the Jardeen, behind a line of tall pencil cypress: an irregular bulk of masonry, plastered and whitewashed, with a wide, many-slanted roof of mossy tiles. Beside the entrance five colored lanterns hung in a vertical line: deep green, a dark, smoky scarlet, a gay light green, violet, and once more dark scarlet; and at the bottom, slightly to the side, a small, steady yellow lamp, the purport of all being: Never neglect the wonder of conscious existence,... Jack Vance
The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway. Jack Vance
Jack Vance quote: "Good music always defeats bad luck"
Good music always defeats bad luck Jack Vance
I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do. Jack Vance
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times. Jack Vance
The Brinktown jail is one of the most ingenious ever propounded by civic authorities. It must be remembered that Brinktown occupies the surface of a volcanic butte, overlooking a trackless jungle of quagmire, thorn, eel-vine skiver tussock. A single road leads from city down to jungle; the prisoner is merely locked out of the city. Escape is at his option; he may flee as far through the jungle as he sees fit: the entire continent is at his disposal. But no prisoner ever ventures far from... Jack Vance
There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent. Jack Vance
Jack Vance quote: "I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets..."
I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to. Jack Vance

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