Jack Vance cytaty

Jack Vance, właśc. John Holbrook Vance – amerykański pisarz, autor powieści fantasy i science fiction. Inne pseudonimy: Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, Jay Kavanse. Laureat prestiżowych nagród: Nagroda Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy i innych. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Sierpień 1916 – 26. Maj 2013   •   Natępne imiona جک ونس, ჯეკ ვენსი
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Jack Vance: Cytaty po angielsku

“Sir, your ideas are incorrect in every possible respect.”

Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Źródło: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Madouc (1989), Chapter 7, section 5 (p. 848)

“Sir, my life, drab and insipid though it may seem to others, is the only life given me to live.”

Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Źródło: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 4, section 3 (p. 419)

“Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.”

Jack Vance Dying Earth

Źródło: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 5, "The Pilgrims"
Źródło: Tales of the Dying Earth

“Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic!”

Jack Vance Dying Earth

Źródło: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Dying Earth (1950), Chapter 1, "Turjan of Miir"

“He adjudicated the case in a manner I still find perplexing, but which must have been equitable, since it pleased no one.”

Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Źródło: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Madouc (1989), Chapter 11, section 1 (p. 967)

“When one deals with the Murthe, the unthinkable becomes the ordinary, and Zanzel's repute carries no more weight than last year's mouse-dropping - if that much.”

"The Murthe", chapter 2
Quotations and text from the Dying Earth novels, Rhialto the Marvellous (1984)

“I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.”

Jack Vance Dying Earth

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

“We need no chieftain; such folk eat more than their share.”

Jack Vance Dying Earth

"Fader's Waft", chapter 13
Dying Earth (1950-1984), Rhialto the Marvellous (1984)

“Shimrod said: “Once I thought of you as a child in a woman’s body.”
Melancthe smiled a cool smile. “And now?”
“The child seems to have wandered away.””

Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Źródło: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 6, section 1 (p. 436)

“The mind was a marvellous instrument, thought Shimrod; when left to wander untended, it often arrived at curious destinations.”

Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Źródło: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Madouc (1989), Chapter 11, section 2 (p. 968)

““Let him talk as he will!” scoffed Zamp. “His motives are not at all obscure.””

Jack Vance książka Showboat World

Źródło: Showboat World (1975), Chapter 10 (p. 108)

“It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.”

Jack Vance Dying Earth

Źródło: Dying Earth (1950-1984), Cugel's Saga (1983), Chapter 5, section 2, "The Bagful of Dreams"

“Guyal reined his horse and reflected that flowers were rarely cherished by persons of hostile disposition.”

Jack Vance Dying Earth

Źródło: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Dying Earth (1950), Chapter 6, "Guyal of Sfere"

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