Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jack Vance, Motivational, Risk, 0 - Jack Vance Copy
An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jack Vance, Inches, Miles, 0 - Jack Vance Copy
Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jack Vance, Aphorism, Enforcement, Law, 0 - Jack Vance Copy
Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jack Vance, Genius, Strangeness, 0 - Jack Vance Copy
It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jack Vance, Complaining, Reality, Useless, 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. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jack Vance, 0 - Jack Vance Copy
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jack Vance, Book, Writing, 0 - Jack Vance Copy
I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jack Vance, Book, Reading, Reading Books, 0 - Jack Vance Copy
Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jack Vance, Blast, Magic, 0 - Jack Vance Copy
I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jack Vance, Watches, 0 - Jack Vance Copy
If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jack Vance, 0 - Jack Vance Copy
Well, I think everything I’ve ever read contributes to the background from which I write. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jack Vance, Backgrounds, Writing, 0 - Jack Vance Copy
If we build more windows and fewer walls, we will have more friends. - Alan Loy McGinnis Author · USA
The frontal cortex doesn’t even fully develop until age 25, which is wild! - Robert M. Sapolsky Neuroendocrinologist
If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it. - Rem Koolhaas Architect · Netherlands