"As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for…" — Jack Vance

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

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45 Quotes by Jack Vance

Jack Vance has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do…
The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges…
I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm…
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant…
Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own…
This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails…
But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on…
But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to…
I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a…
I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

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'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax… — Lewis Carroll
That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything -… — David Amram
A carpenter is known by his chips. — Jonathan Swift
Fourthly, the way of the artisan. The way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his… — Miyamoto Musashi
There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with… — Anthony de Mello
Jesus was a pothead- long hair, beard, sandals, carpenter- do the math it all adds up. Living with twelve guys… — Ralphie May
Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain… — Bernardino Ramazzini
Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to… — Jack Kerouac
Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and… — John Jay Chapman
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade. — Desiderius Erasmus
The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone… — Anthony of Padua
I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're… — Betty Buckley

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