What did Jack Vance mean by: It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I’m not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
