Quotes by Jack Vance

Jack Vance

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

Barbarians

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

Carpenter

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

Admiration

Erotic

Function

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.

Beauty

Eye

Love Is

But I’ve sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

Has Beens

Inspection

Jobs

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

Fiction

Sake

Science

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

Book

Enormous

Influence

How to know, oh how to know! All is relative ease and facility in orthodoxy, yet how can it be denied that good is in itself undeniable? Absolutes are the most uncertain of all formulations, while the uncertainties are the most real.

Ease

Orthodoxy

Real

Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.

Balance

Party

Realizing

I become drunk as circumstances dictate.

Circumstances

Drunk

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Airplane

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Apology

Automobile

Backgrounds

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Beauty

Bliss

Book

Care

Carpenter

Century

Checks

Circumstances

Citing

Civilization

Complaining

Convenient

Criminals

Doctors

Done

Drunk

Ease

Eight

Ends

Enormous

Erotic

Eye

Fairy Tale

Fiction

Firsts

Function

Genius

Giving

Has Beens

Ignorance

Ignorance Is Bliss

Individual

Influence

Inspection

Intelligent

Jobs

Latin

Love Is

Maidens

Mean

Minstrels

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Quotes by Jack Vance

Jack Vance

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

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.

But I’ve sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

How to know, oh how to know! All is relative ease and facility in orthodoxy, yet how can it be denied that good is in itself undeniable? Absolutes are the most uncertain of all formulations, while the uncertainties are the most real.

Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.

I become drunk as circumstances dictate.

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