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Jack Vance
John Holbrook Vance (b. August 28, 1916) is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy author perhaps best known for his four-book Dying Earth series.
Quotes and text from the Dying Earth novels
- Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted.
- Grue: man, ocular, the unusual hoon.
- Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.
- My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.
- My eye went to you like the nectar moth flits to jacynth.
- Gid: hybrid of man, gargoyle, whorl, leaping insect.
- Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic!
- She contrived to twist her body into first one luxurious position, then another.
- I become drunk as circumstances dictate.
- Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
- All is mutablitity, and thus your three hundred terces has fluctuated to three.
- We go to the image expander; there we will explode the ghost to the macroid dimension.
- First you are swathed head to foot in the intestines of fresh killed owls.
- The contingency is remote.
- (This is also a Jeeves quote in the PG Wodehouse Novels.)
- My talismans are not obviously useless.
- At his elbow a voice said, "I am Chun the Unavoidable."
- The creature displayed the qualities reminiscent of both coelenterate and echinoderm. A terrene nudibranch? A mollusc deprived of its shell? More importantly, was the creature edible?
- The void in his mind athrob for the soothing pressure of knowledge.
- Sixty bobbins: Blikdak was no more.
- Are you ready for unorthodox procedures?
- So now, be off! Or I inflict upon you the Spell of the Macroid Toe, whereupon the signalized member swells to the proportions of a house.
Quotes and text from the Lyonesse Trilogy
Suldrun's Garden
The Green Pearl
- I also am of noble blood, or so it seems to me. — Orlo
- A notable scheme has occurred to me. — Orlo
- Naturally! That is the whole point of robbery: to acquire the victim's valuables! — Long Liam the Barber
- You have frightened and daunted me. I will stop stealing at once. — Dhrun
- It would not do if both of us became addled, and later woke up in doubt as to who was who. — Shimrod
- Dango, Pume, Thwither: down with Visbhume's breeches; let him hold his backside at the ready. — King Throbius
- Dismount and kneel before me, that I may strike off your head with fullest ease. You shall die in this tragic golden light of sunset. — Torqual
- He lives among the far moons of Achernar, and he is accustomed to the most extreme outrages of terror and the hourly proximity of death. — Murgen
- I am not a sensitive person, but these remarks carry a sting. — Sir Lulie
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