Dying-earth Quote by Jack Vance Download Open image ““I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!”” — Jack Vance ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dying-earth Fantasy Vance
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Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
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… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
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“The dead man's companions at the counter started to their feet, but halted as Voynod with great aplomb turned to face them. "Take care,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
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… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“As the earth dies your spirit will bloom; as the world fades your soul will rise and glisten. Amongst the dehydrated crevices of a… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
