# Quote — Jack Vance, The Anome

> Are musicians unlike other men? Beget and forget, that’s how it goes.

- Author: [Jack Vance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance.md)
- Book: [The Anome](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-anome.md)
- Page: 16
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Vance#The_Anome_(1973%3B_serialized_1971)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-anome/are-musicians-unlike

## More from this book

> The cantons of Shant were alike only in their mutual distrust. Each regarded as Universal Principles its own customs, costumes, jargon, and mannerisms and considered all else eccentricity.

p. 63 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-anome/the-cantons-of-shant.md)

> “The burglar suffered a harsh fate,” Frolitz told Etzwane.” The lesson to be learned is this: Never commit an unlawful act. Especially, never steal; when you take a man’s property, your life becomes forfeit, as has just been demonstrated.”
>
> Loy rubbed his chin with uneasy fingers. “In a sense, the penalty seems extreme. The burglar took goods but lost his life. These are the laws of Elphine which the Faceless Man correctly enforced—but should a bagful of goods and a man’s life weigh so evenly on the balance?”
>
> The white-haired stranger offered his opinion. “Why should it be otherwise? You ignore a crucial factor in the situation. Property and life are not incommensurable, when property is measured in terms of human toil. Essentially property is life; it is that proportion of life which an individual has expended to gain the property. When a thief steals property, he steals life. Each act of pillage therefore becomes a small murder.”

p. 108 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-anome/the-burglar-suffered.md)

> I don’t care a fig whether or not you are offended.

p. 139 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-anome/i-dont-care.md)