Quotes of Jack Vance - somelinesforyou

“ You are young; you have hopes. One by one they will go, and nothing will be left but the bare fact of life. ”

- Jack Vance

“ If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind. ”

- Jack Vance

“ You’re so quiet and subdued! You worry me. Are you well?” “Quite well. Deflated, perhaps. I have been deserted by my enemies. The affair is over. I am done. ”

- Jack Vance
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