What did Jack Vance mean by: An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought. 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
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
It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jack Vance, Acceptance, Realism, Resignation, 0 Jack Vance
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
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
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
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
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
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Read explanation François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. Read explanation François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
