187 Quotes by Jack Vance

I hate you with the hate that I give to all the world; I love you with a feeling nothing else arouses.

One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another’s bones in one’s vexation.

Somebody else’s ignorance is bliss.

Lord Daldace looked about as if seeing the villa for the first time. “What are dreams? Ordinary experience is a dream. The eyes, the ears, the nose: they present pictures on the brain, and these pictures are called ‘reality’. At night, when we dream, other pictures, of source unknown, are impinged. Sometimes the dream-images are more real than ‘reality’. Which is solid, which illusion? Why trouble to make the distinction?

Uncertainty hurts more than ignorance.

I am Chun the Unavoidable. Tonight, O Lith, tonight it is two long bright threads for you.

When we shattered the Actuarian, we shattered the bar across the sky. Now, life, eternal life, is at anyone’s demand. Man must move forward; this is the nature of his brain and blood. Today he is given the Earth; his destiny is the stars. The entire universe awaits him! And so, why should we quaver and hedge at life for all of us?

I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man’s accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.

I haven’t been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.