"Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow.……" — Jack Vance
"Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism."
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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 Aphorism Quotes
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No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or,…
— Ronald Fisher
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Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the…
— Peter D. Mitchell
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On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text…
— Robert Bellarmine
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Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms…
— Noah Lukeman
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere…
— F. H. Bradley
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An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.
— James Geary
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If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his…
— Milan Kundera
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
— Mason Cooley
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We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.
— Paul Eldridge
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