So what happens when the camera is finally invented? Handle… - David Gerrold

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So what happens when the camera is finally invented?
Handley let his breath escape in a whoosh. "The artists are out of jobs?"
"Wrong. The artist simply have to learn how to do things that the camera can't. The artist had to stop being a recorder and start being an interpreter. That's when expressionism was born."

David Gerrold

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Jerrold David Friedman (born 24 January 1944, in Chicago, Illinois), better known by his pen name David Gerrold, is an American science fiction author.

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“You could call it that,” Auberson sighed. It wouldn’t be correct, but you could call it that.

I wish I could change it all. I wish I could.
But I can’t.
Dammit.
Now I know what it’s like to have an indelible past—one that can’t be erased and changed at will. It’s frustrating. It’s maddening. And it makes me wish I had been more careful and thoughtful.

You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.
Live well, my son.

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