Jack Vance

Quotes

1. “I learned a great deal,” said Beran. “And then I lost all heart for further learning.”

   Palafox’s eyes glinted. “Education is not achieved through the heart—it is a systematization of the mental processes.”

   “But I am something other than a mental process,” said Beran. “I am a man. I must reckon with the whole of myself.”

   p. 133

2. 

   What, given the circumstances, would have been Emphyrio’s course of action?

   Truth.

   Very well, thought Ghyl: it shall be Truth, and let the consequences fall where they may.

3. 

   “Tomorrow?”

   “Sh.” She put her hand across his lips. “Never say the word!”

4. 

   Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.

   p. 80

5. 

   “My father says I have too much curiosity for my own good.”

   Captain Henshaw chuckled. “He’s wrong there; too much curiosity never hurt anyone. When a boy has too little, that’s the time to start worrying.”

   p. 16

6. 

   The merchant voiced an inarticulate protest. Glystra glared at him, “Do you think I trust you?”

   “Trust?” said the merchant with a puzzled expression. “Trust? What word is that?” And he tested it several times more.

   p. 167

7. 

   A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

   p. 31

8. 

   If the dictators and militarists who used to start wars had to earn by manual labor what their wars cost, there would have been very few wars.

   p. 31

9. 

   You can’t convict or even accuse a man of criminal activity just because he looks peculiar; otherwise, three-quarters of us would be in jail.

   p. 142

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