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To Live Forever

Name: To Live Forever
Author: Jack Vance

To Live Forever is a science fiction novel by American writer Jack Vance, first published in 1956. In the Vance Integral Edition, it was retitled Clarges.

“The crime,” said the Jacynth softly, “is abstract and fundamental: the innate depravity of extinguishing life.”

Jack Vance book To Live Forever

Source: To Live Forever (1956), Chapter XI, section 2

“The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is.”

Jack Vance book To Live Forever

Source: To Live Forever (1956), Chapter XI, section 1

“He must approach the subject critically, alert for contradictions, pedantry and vagueness.”

Jack Vance book To Live Forever

Source: To Live Forever (1956), Chapter V, section 2

“It is simple dog-eat-dog,” said Waylock. It’s basic battle for survival, fiercer and more brutal than ever before in the history of man. You have blinded yourself; you subscribe to false theories; you are permeated with your obsession—not only you but all of us. If we faced the facts of existence, our palliatories would be less crowded.”

Jack Vance book To Live Forever

Source: To Live Forever (1956), Chapter XI, section 2

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

Jack Vance book To Live Forever

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

“The history of man is a compendium of such evil. We are an evolutionary product, descendants of predators. A few synthetic foods aside, every morsel eaten by man is taken from another living thing. We are intended for murder; we kill to exist!”

Jack Vance book To Live Forever

Source: To Live Forever (1956), Chapter XII, section 4

“Another busy day! So let’s to business. The clock moves forward; wasted time is life defeated!”

Jack Vance book To Live Forever

Source: To Live Forever (1956), Chapter VIII, section 3

“A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain…. The solution is not splicing the rope; it’s lessening the tension.”

Jack Vance book To Live Forever

Source: To Live Forever (1956), Chapter XVI, section 3

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