Curse him to eternal damnation! Yes! Of course!" came the emotional reply. "Don't curse him," I said softly. "Remember--he's only a machine, just an imperfect mirror of ourselves. We made him what he is--the disease, the cancer." There was nothing else to say, because that left only cursing ourselves, and we were already cursed.
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I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things. JACK L. CHALKER I write novels and other things. JACK L. CHALKER I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday. JACK L. CHALKER If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you. JACK L. CHALKER I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office. JACK L. CHALKER I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the S... JACK L. CHALKER Decadence is wonderful. JACK L. CHALKER I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes. JACK L. CHALKER No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in the... JACK L. CHALKER First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out rea... JACK L. CHALKER ...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationali... JACK L. CHALKER Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there. JACK L. CHALKER Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews. JACK L. WARNER I've got America's best writer for $300 a week. JACK L. WARNER I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em. JACK L. WARNER I've got America's best writer for $300 a week. JACK L. WARNER You were very good playing a bitch-heroine, but you shouldn't win an award for playing yourself. JACK L. WARNER Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews. JACK L. WARNER Losing your mind is just like ruining a flower just have to keep plucking at their petals L Manipulation and pretentiousness, the dead can't do that. L Your cynical ways define your soul
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God is breathing in and out there. L HILL Dreams are stages where lies and truths intertwine in and endless dance. It is in the waking world t... L. FILLOON Continuing a short series on authenticity: "Prayer in the Name of Christ", though it is essentia... L. SWETENHAM Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know. L. CARTE Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots. L BERTSCH Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are ... L. ESTRANGE We are all related because our DNA is the same with our very first mother (Eve). METTRIE L. Undesirable behaviors can be changed positively by using behavior modification. METTRIE L. Love conquers everything even karma. METTRIE L. Life is full of endless possibilities. METTRIE L. The true purpose of pain in one's life is to grow strong--in faith, spirit, and emotions. METTRIE L. 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JACK WHITEHALL Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll ... JACK WHITE A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. Th... JACK WHITE I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so ... JACK WHITE I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my fri... JACK WHITE There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so ... JACK WHITE If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and e... JACK WHITE We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer s... JACK WHITE I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But... JACK WHITE I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want th... JACK WHITE I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into thing... JACK WHITE I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. Ther... JACK WHITE Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get ... JACK WHITE I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my li... JACK WHITE I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bong... JACK WHITE With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. ... JACK WHITE When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to h... JACK WHITE I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than ... 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JACK WAGNER By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really mak... JACK WAGNER Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. On... JACK WAGNER I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in la... JACK WAGNER We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those ... JACK WAGNER My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from fou... JACK WAGNER My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mothe... JACK WAGNER My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me co... JACK WAGNER Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it. JACK WAGNER Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going ... JACK WAGNER My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both. JACK WAGNER I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to. JACK VANCE I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet. JACK VANCE I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell. JACK VANCE I never worked in an office in my life. JACK VANCE I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly f... JACK VANCE I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years... JACK VANCE I'd never been published when I was young. JACK VANCE In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you. JACK VANCE Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it... JACK VANCE So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly use... JACK VANCE Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn... JACK VANCE There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who ha... JACK VANCE Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write. JACK VANCE But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer s... JACK VANCE I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all. JACK VANCE I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough. JACK VANCE This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting... JACK VANCE I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed. JACK VANCE I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do. JACK VANCE A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be c... JACK VANCE But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection. JACK VANCE Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somew... JACK VANCE