Jack Williamson quotes
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“We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.”
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“Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.”
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“I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.”
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“I'm afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news. Every known detail of the origin of mankind is extremely important to such a specialist as Dr. Mondrick, but it doesn't interest the man in the street - not unless it's dramatized.”
-- Jack WilliamsonSource : Jack Williamson (2013). “Darker Than You Think”, p.25, Hachette UK
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“That was quite an adventure, stopping at a different house each night, seeing new country,.”
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“[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.”
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“"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism.”
-- Jack Williamson
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“Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.”
Source : Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.109, Random House
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“Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.”
Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books
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“The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.”
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“Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.”
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