What did Jack Vance mean by: I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed. 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
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
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
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
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
Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jack Vance, Enforcement, Law, Reach, 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
It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jack Vance, Acceptance, Realism, Resignation, 0 Jack Vance
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. Read explanation Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves. Frank Shamrock Mixed martial arts fighter
Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone! Friedrich Schiller Playwright · Germany
