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Jack Vance, vlastním jménem John Holbrook Vance byl americký důlní inženýr, fyzik, scenárista a spisovatel science fiction, fantasy a detektivních příběhů. Počátky jeho tvorby jsou spojeny s tzv. Zlatým věkem science fiction. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. srpen 1916 – 26. květen 2013   •   Další jména جک ونس, ჯეკ ვენსი
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Jack Vance: Citáty anglicky

“When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.”

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Jack Vance kniha The Languages of Pao

Zdroj: The Languages of Pao (1958), Chapter 14 (p. 149)

““Why not alter the habits of a lifetime and speak with candour?” asked Shimrod. “Truth, after all, need not be only the tactic of last resort.””

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Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 17, section 2 (p. 657)

“He’s like an imbecile with a pepper shaker; a little makes his food taste good, therefore a lot will make it wonderful.”

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Jack Vance kniha To Live Forever

Zdroj: To Live Forever (1956), Chapter VII, section 1

“He looked around the landscape. Drenched in the golden haze of late afternoon it seemed wonderfully tranquil and beautiful, though permeated with a sense of remoteness and even melancholy, like a scene remembered from one’s youth.”

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Jack Vance kniha Space Opera

Zdroj: Space Opera (1965), Chapter 13 (p. 130)

“I'm only giving orders because I'm more efficient and smarter than you are.”

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Jack Vance kniha The Five Gold Bands

Zdroj: The Five Gold Bands (1950), Chapter 5 (p. 57)

“"The contingency is remote." (This is also a Jeeves quote in the PG Wodehouse Novels)”

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Jack Vance Dying Earth

Zdroj: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 1, "The Overworld"

“Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.”

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Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 8, section 3 (p. 480)

“I am not called Cugel the Clever for nothing.”

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Jack Vance Dying Earth

Zdroj: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 3, "The Mountains of Magnatz"

“At Gundar we conceive 'innocence' as a positive quality, not merely an insipid absence of guilt," stated the Nolde. "We are not the fools that certain untidy ruffians might suppose.”

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Jack Vance Dying Earth

Zdroj: Dying Earth (1950-1984), Cugel's Saga (1983), Chapter 5, section 1, "The Seventeen Virgins"

“"Very well," said Cugel. "I will ride with you to Taun Tassel, but you must accept these three terces in full, exact, final, comprehensive and complete compensation for the ride and every other aspect, adjunct, by-product and consequence, either direct or indirect, of the said ride, renouncing every other claim, now, and forever, including all times of the past and future, without exception, and absolving me, in part and in whole, from any and all further obligation."
Iucounu held up small balled fists and gritted his teeth toward the sky. "I repudiate your entire paltry philosophy! I find zest in giving!"”

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Jack Vance Dying Earth

Zdroj: Dying Earth (1950-1984), Cugel's Saga (1983), Chapter 6, section 2, "Spatterlight"

“Control is necessary and even good—so long as I do the controlling.”

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Jack Vance kniha Emphyrio

Zdroj: Emphyrio (1969), Chapter 11

“I have seen all I care to see and heard rather more.”

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Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Madouc (1989), Chapter 6, section 1 (p. 792)

“Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.”

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Jack Vance Dying Earth

"Morreion", chapter 8
Dying Earth (1950-1984), Rhialto the Marvellous (1984)

“"Enter, my friend, enter. How goes your trade?"
"In all candor, not too well," said Cugel. "I am both perplexed and disappointed, for my talismans are not obviously useless."”

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Jack Vance Dying Earth

Zdroj: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 1, "The Overworld"

“If the past is a house of many chambers, then the present is the most recent coat of paint.”

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Section 12 (p. 211)
Short fiction, Rumfuddle (1973)

“Damned meddlers. It’s hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it’s just curiosity.”

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Jack Vance kniha The Five Gold Bands

Zdroj: The Five Gold Bands (1950), Chapter 6 (p. 65)

“My fees are not too high. Your wage scale may simply be too low.”

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Jack Vance kniha Showboat World

Zdroj: Showboat World (1975), Chapter 12 (p. 132)

“He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.”

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Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 6, section 5 (p. 451)

“Die then. This is my cure for sore knees.”

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Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Suldrun's Garden (1983), Chapter 26, section 4 (p. 299)

“Ghyl laughed also. “If I'm too serious, you're too irresponsible.”
“Bah,” retorted Floriel. “Is the world responsible? Of course not! The world is random, vagrant, heedless. To be responsible is to be out of phase, to be insane!”
Ghyl pondered a moment. “This is perhaps the case, in a world left to itself. But society imposes order. Living in a society, it is not insane to be responsible.””

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Jack Vance kniha Emphyrio

Zdroj: Emphyrio (1969), Chapter 11

“Your thoughts move with the deft precision of worm-tracks in the mud.”

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Jack Vance kniha The Languages of Pao

Zdroj: The Languages of Pao (1958), Chapter 14 (p. 149)

“Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.”

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Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 6, section 5 (p. 449)

“We’ll rack our brains and either solve your problem or come up come up with new and better ones.”

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Jack Vance

Section 3 (p. 172)
Short fiction, Rumfuddle (1973)

“If one basic axiom controls the cosmos, it must be this: In a situation of infinity every possible condition occurs, not once, but an infinite number of times.”

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Jack Vance

Section 4 (pp. 173-174)
Short fiction, Rumfuddle (1973)

“Your character, Apollon Zamp, is marred by a certain paltriness of spirit, a diffused universal distrust which I truly deplore.”

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Jack Vance kniha Showboat World

Zdroj: Showboat World (1975), Chapter 13 (p. 151)

“Dango, Pume, Thwither: down with Visbhume’s breeches; let him hold his backside at the ready.”

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Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 9, section 4 (p. 505)

““Truth” is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.”

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Jack Vance kniha The Languages of Pao

Zdroj: The Languages of Pao (1958), Chapter 11 (p. 112)

“Man had dominated the Earth by virtue of a single assumption: that an effect could be traced to a cause, itself the effect of a previous cause. Manipulation of this basic law yielded rich results; there seemed no need for any other tool or instrumentality. Man congratulated himself on his generalized structure. He could live on desert, on plain or ice, in forest or in city; Nature had not shaped him to a special environment.
He was unaware of his vulnerability. Logic was the special environment; the brain was the special tool.”

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Jack Vance

Infinity Science Fiction (July 1957)
Short fiction, The Men Return (1957)

“I watch the sea and the sky; sometimes I wade in the surf and build roads in the sand. At night I study the stars.”
“You have no friends?”
“No.”
“And what of the future?”
“The future stops at ‘now’.”
“As to that, I am not so sure,” said Shimrod. “It is at best a half-truth.”
“What of that? Half a truth is better than none: do you not agree?”
“Not altogether,” said Shimrod. “I am a practical man, I try to control the shape of the ‘nows’ which lie in the offing, instead of submitting to them as they occur.”
Melancthe gave an uninterested shrug. “You are free to do as you like.” Leaning back in the divan, she looked out across the sea.
Shimrod finally spoke. “Well then: are you ‘good’ or ‘bad’?”
“I don’t know.”
Shimrod became vexed. “Talking with you is like visiting an empty house.”

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Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Melancthe considered a moment before responding. “Perhaps,” she said, “you are visiting the wrong house. Or perhaps you are the wrong visitor.”
Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Madouc (1989), Chapter 5, section 4 (p. 783)

“Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.”

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Jack Vance kniha Big Planet

Zdroj: Big Planet (1957), Chapter 8 “A Matter of Vitamins” (p. 80)