# Quote — Jack Vance, The Green Pearl

> A notable scheme has occurred to me.

- Author: [Jack Vance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance.md)
- Book: [The Green Pearl](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-green-pearl.md)
- Page: 371
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Vance#The_Green_Pearl_(1985)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-green-pearl/a-notable-scheme

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> I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.

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> “If ambush I must, then ambush I will,” Aillas muttered to himself. “A fig for chivalry, at least until the war is won.”

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> Dango, Pume, Thwither: down with Visbhume’s breeches; let him hold his backside at the ready.

p. 505 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-green-pearl/dango-pume-thwither.md)