Jack Williamson Quotes

#1. I fancy that the spirit of old Tom Hossie, wise with age and vastly weary of the labor and troublous delights of life, hungered and thirsted for death.

Jack Williamson

#2. was still afraid - not of the dark-lipped girl who seemed to be waiting for his kiss, not even of the twentieth-century sorceress she pretended to be, but rather of that vague and strangely terrifying feeling she aroused, of awakening senses and powers and old half memories in himself.

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#3. [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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#4. 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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#5. Your danger is something other than death, and uglier. Because she will try to change you - to arouse something in you that should never be awakened.

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#6. And there would come up from the sea its voice; and the sea has no voice, but mysteriously touches the strings within the soul of a man, so that the soul speaks in its own way, each soul lifting its peculiar message.

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#7. Romulus and Remus, twin sons of dark Mars and a human vestal, sucking at the dugs of a wolf bitch.

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#8. That was quite an adventure, stopping at a different house each night, seeing new country,.

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#9. I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.

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#10. Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

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#11. I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.

Jack Williamson