Frases de Jack Vance

John Holbrook Vance ,[1]​ más conocido por su pseudónimo Jack Vance, fue un escritor de fantasía y ciencia ficción nacido en San Francisco, California . Es autor, entre otras, de la saga Planeta de la aventura . Utilizó diversos pseudónimos — Peter Held, John Holbrook, John van See, Alan Wade — para firmar su trabajo, escribiendo incluso bajo el policiaco de Ellery Queen tres novelas: The Madman Theory, The Four Johns y A Room to Die in. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. agosto 1916 – 26. mayo 2013   •   Otros nombres جک ونس, ჯეკ ვენსი
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Jack Vance: Frases en inglés

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

Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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

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

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

Jack Vance Dying Earth

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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 libro Showboat World

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

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

Jack Vance Dying Earth

Fuente: 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

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

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