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Jack L. Chalker Quotes

1944–2005 United States

Jack Laurence Chalker (December 17, 1944 – February 11, 2005) was an American science fiction author.

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Random Jack L. Chalker quote

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To tell the truth, the only thing more exhausting than doing something is doing nothing at all.

Midnight at the Well of Souls (1977)

I remembered him as one hell of a womanizer—particularly for a mathematician.

Midnight at the Well of Souls (1977)

You can’t be a nonconformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.

Midnight at the Well of Souls (1977)

And, of course, men have just as many problems and hang-ups as women. The grass isn’t greener, just different.

Midnight at the Well of Souls (1977)

“All magic means is a line between knowledge and ignorance,” Ortega responded. “A magician is someone who can do something you don’t know how to do. All technology, for example, is magic to a primitive.”

Midnight at the Well of Souls (1977)

I found that the rich whom I’d envied dreamed of greater riches, and that power came not from obeying the law but from not getting caught.

Midnight at the Well of Souls (1977)

He was firmly convinced of his uniqueness in the universe and his general superiority to it, although he was occasionally bothered by the universe’s lack of appreciation.

Midnight at the Well of Souls (1977)

He had often wondered if there was something deep in the human psyche that insisted on tribalism. People used to fight wars not so much to protect their own life-style but to impose it on others.

Midnight at the Well of Souls (1977)

Even the people were bred without imaginations. The imaginative ones were fixed—or gotten rid of. Too dangerous to have a thinker unless he thought the government’s way.

Midnight at the Well of Souls (1977)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jack L. Chalker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.