"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.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do…
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The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges…
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm…
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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…
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Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own…
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This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails…
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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on…
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to…
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a…
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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More Carpenter Quotes
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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
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That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything -…
— David Amram
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
— Jonathan Swift
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Fourthly, the way of the artisan. The way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with…
— Anthony de Mello
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Jesus was a pothead- long hair, beard, sandals, carpenter- do the math it all adds up. Living with twelve guys…
— Ralphie May
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Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to…
— Jack Kerouac
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Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and…
— John Jay Chapman
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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone…
— Anthony of Padua
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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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