## Metadata - Author: [[Jack Vance]] - Full Title: Demon Princes - Category: #books ## Highlights - “Eat and drink without stint. He who can and does pay is a customer. He who cannot and does not pay is a guest of the establishment.” ([Location 93](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00A1S4EHQ&location=93)) - Smade nodded politely to indicate that the gossip had reached to the allowable limits of particularity. ([Location 110](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00A1S4EHQ&location=110)) - “Odd,” he said once more, “that you do not know Hildemar Dasce. But he will come in presently. How do I know? By the logic of plain ordinary fear.” ([Location 415](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00A1S4EHQ&location=415)) - What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life. ([Location 540](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00A1S4EHQ&location=540)) - blue water under a collar of white foam sparkled and rolled calmly up and down the sand, creating a sound invariable on every world in every galaxy where surf meets shore. ([Location 1367](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00A1S4EHQ&location=1367)) - For all its rawness and cruel excess we envy archaic humanity its ardent experience. We hold that gain after toil, triumph after adversity, achievement to a goal long-sought, is a greater beneficence than prebendary nutrient from the teat of an indulgent government.” ([Location 1752](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00A1S4EHQ&location=1752)) - I have often declared myself a great lover. All of us lie, as much or more than necessary. ‘What is truth?’ asks Pons Pilatus, in the fable, and I answer: ‘A commodity as cheap as air, which we hide as if it were as precious as yewl-stone.’” ([Location 2360](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00A1S4EHQ&location=2360))