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I was his as if I had been born for that very purpose, as if my body were a puppet, and he was the puppeteer pulling the strings.


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J. L. AUSTIN 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 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 Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
H. L. MENCKEN Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to...
R. L. STINE For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H. L. MENCKEN No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.
D. L. HUGHLEY The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
E. L. DOCTOROW The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. MENCKEN A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. MENCKEN Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
L. RON HUBBARD I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON Relax! Life is beautiful!
DAVID L. WOLPER