Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jack Vance, Exercise, Freedom, Privileges, 0 Jack Vance Copy
An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jack Vance, Planning, Preparation, Wisdom, 0 Jack Vance Copy
Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jack Vance, Enforcement, Law, Reach, 0 Jack Vance Copy
Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jack Vance, Beauty, Genius, Strangeness, 0 Jack Vance Copy
It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jack Vance, Acceptance, Realism, Resignation, 0 Jack Vance Copy
The life we’ve been leading couldn’t last forever. It’s a wonder it lasted as long as it did. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jack Vance, Change, Mortality, Reflection, 0 Jack Vance Copy
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jack Vance, Abundance, Creativity, Realization, 0 Jack Vance Copy
I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jack Vance, Exploration, Growth, Knowledge, 0 Jack Vance Copy
Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jack Vance, Magic, Mischief, Power, 0 Jack Vance Copy
I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jack Vance, Observation, Reputation, 0 Jack Vance Copy
If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jack Vance, Appreciation, Creativity, Necessity, 0 Jack Vance Copy
Well, I think everything I’ve ever read contributes to the background from which I write. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jack Vance, Background, Influence, Writing, 0 Jack Vance Copy
I’ve heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male. Jacqueline Novogratz
Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention. Mary Parker Follett Management consultant and social worker · USA
